Robert Crawford

Robert W. Crawford was born in 1958 in Philadelphia. He graduated from Colby College in 1980 and earned an MA in National Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University in 1985. From 1983 to 1994 he worked in and around the Pentagon. He now lives in Derry, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in The Formalist, First Things, The Dark Horse, Iambs & Trochees, Light and other journals. His first book of poetry, Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man was published in March 2005 and is now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and direct from the publisher David Robert Books.

More Than a Bio: Robert Crawford talks frankly about his life and what drew him to poetry.