Robert Shoemaker

Background

About Robert Shoemaker

Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Eric holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Louisville and an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. Eric’s work focuses on magical poetics, queer theory and poetry, public history, translation, and gender and sexuality. Eric has published three books of hybrid writing, poetry, memoir, and playwriting: Ca'Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing). Eric has published scholarly work in Signs and Society, Jacket2, Entropy, and Gender Forum; translations in Rattle, Asymptote, Exchanges, The Adirondack Review, and Columbia Journal; stage plays in Plath Profiles; and poetry in Transom, Analogies & Allegories, Tiny Spoon, Bombay Gin, The Gordian Review, Barely South Review, Verde Qué Te Quiero Verde, Kairos, and other journals. Eric is the Digital Archive Editor at the Poetry Foundation, where he curates poetry content for the website, programs and writes for exhibitions, and shares educational and scholarly resources on poetry. Eric is the Poetry Editor for the interdisciplinary journal Plath Profiles. Follow him at reshoemaker.com, and find Eric on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @Robert.E.Shoe.