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Self-Portrait As Odysseus
Like Odysseus the traveler, Robert Wynne has come home to his genius. The task Wynne sets for himself in this book-length work could only be accomplished by someone who carries in his suitcase a wild sense of humor and a loving eye for the absurd. Here is a sympathetic embrace of all that is human in the word of office politics and business travel. Every Dockers-clad laptop jockey should be so blessed as to see the world as Wynne sees it — nuanced by historical parallels to human history and yet strangely new. This is a knockout book of poetry. —Eloise Klein Healy, The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press)
Museum of Parallel Art
Robert Wynne’s Museum of Parallel Art is a sharply written, wonderfully imagined collection of poems. The sheer variety of tones and perspectives found in Wynne’s work are good fuel for the heart, dazzling remedies for the hum-drum ho-hum so common in our reading lives. Few poets feature his capacity to entertain human desperation and comedy so convincingly—and sometimes within the same piece! If we read poetry to extend our vision, to see what is often missed, then this is a must-have, gotta-get book of poems. —Tim Seibles
Remembering How to Sleep
Robert Wynne crafts his poems with such consummate skill and arranges them so seamlessly it is hard to believe Remembering How To Sleep is his first full-length collection of poetry. It is no wonder that the judges selected this polished collection of poems for the Poetry Society of Texas’ 2006 Eakin Book Award. — Larry D. Thomas, 2007-2008 Poet Laureate of Texas
Chapbooks
- Wasted Lands (2005, Nightgaunt Press)
- Imaginary Ekphrasis (2005, Pudding House Press)
- What the Body Knows (2002, Pudding House Press)
- Call The Sun Down (with Robert Arroyo, Jr,) (1999, Valley Contemporary Press)
- Patterns of Breathing (1997, Mille Grazie Press)
- Driving (1997, The Inevitable Press)
Anthologies
- Connection: Poetry on the Photographs of Thuy Saliba (2006, Fort Worth Community Arts Center)
- Blue Arc West (2006, Tebot Bach)
- North Texas Neruda Love (2006, Tejana Tongue Press)
- Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (2005, Bayeaux Arts, Inc.)
- Red, White & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America (2004, University of Iowa Press)
- So Luminous the Wildflowers (2003, Tebot Bach Press)
- Fort Worth Library Poetry Anthology (2002, Fort Worth Public Library)
- Houston Poetry Fest Anthologies (2002-2005, Houston Poetry Fest)
- Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry (2001 online anthology at DialoguePoetry.org)
- Uno - A Poetry Anthology (2001, Comrades Press - U.K.)
- Smaller Than God: Words of Spiritual Longing (2001, Black Moss Press - Canada)
- Henrys Creature: Poems and Stories on the Automobile (2000, Black Moss Press - Canada)
- Diverse-City: AIPF Anthologies (1997-2008, Austin Intl. Poetry Festival)
Journals & Magazines
Poems by Robert Wynne appear in fine journals Solo, Grasslands Review, Poetry International, Two Rivers Review, O.C. Weekly, 4th Street, Trestle Creek Review, Spillway, Rattle, Fox Cry, Northridge Review, Paper Radio, Blue Satellite, Verve, Wordplay, Art/Life, Caffeine, Shiela-Na-Gig, Zambomba, Arsenic Lobster, Askew, Broadkill Review, Clackamas Literary Review, DFW Poetry Review, Epicenter, Kaleidowhirl, Slow Trains, Sulphur River Literary Review, and many others.
Awards
- 2006 Ocean Prize from Sulphur River Literary Review
- 2006 Christina Sergeyevna Award from the Austin International Poetry Festival
- Nominated for 2004 Pushcart Prize by Gin Bender Poetry Review
- 2002 & 2004 Houston Poetry Fest Highest Scoring Juried Poet
- 2000 Grasslands Review Editors Prize
- 1998 and 2000 PoetrySuperHighway.com Online Poetry Contest Winner
- 5th Place in 1998 San Diego Street Scene Poetry Slam Finals
- 1997 Masters Poetry Prize
- 1991 and 1994 Academy of American Poets College Awards at California State University, Northridge
