About Robert Watson

Robert Watson has published five poetry collections, most recently, The Pendulum: New and Selected,(Louisiana State University Press), Selected Poems (Atheneum), and Night Blooming Cactus (Athenaeum). He is also the author of two novels,Three Sides of the Mirror and Lily Lang. Among his many honors are awards form the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Williams College, Johns Hopkins University, and for many years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. When not traveling around the globe, Mr. Watson lives with his wife, the painter Betty Watson, in Greensboro, North Carolina.