Poet Bob Brooks lived in Concord, Massachusetts, and Stockton Springs, Maine.
After college (Harvard) and the army (as a translator) Mr. Brooks settled into a long-term job as editor at a computer systems company, which he left in the late eighties.
He started publishing in the late nineties, in such magazines asThe Beloit Poetry Journal, Mudfish, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and many others; and in three chapbooks, Still in Here Someplace (2002) from Pudding House Publications, A Story Anyone Could Stick To (2008) from Finishing Line Press, and most recently Three-season Views (2009), also from Finishing Line Press.
His first full-length collection, Unguarded Crossing, was published in the spring of 2011 by Antrim House.
1936-2015