Robert Bense
Robert Bense grew up in southern Illinois on a farm, worked in business and taught at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Agni, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Poetry, Salmagundi, Shenandoah and The New Republic. A book of poems, Readings in Ordinary Time, was published by The Backwaters Press. He now lives in Sacramento, California.
Reading List
Remedy for Pessimism
The clevis has lost its pin says the griot. We know what he means. Such are the squalid futures of the small. Yet thinning beyond recognition gave Marc Antony an inner life to envy. In much of the country important …