Robert M. West teaches English at Mississippi State University. He is editor of Blink: A Little Little Magazine of Little Poems. He received his Ph.D in English from the University of NC-Chapel Hill where he also served as managing editor of The Carolina Quarterly. His poems and criticism have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, The Cortland Review, Pembroke Magazine, and The Connecticut Review.
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