Roberta Gould

Roberta Gould is the author of eleven books of poetry. Among these are Writing Air, Written Water, Pacing the Wind, Only Rock, Louder Than Seeds, and her latest released in 2016, To The Dogs and an e-book What History Trammels (2011). She taught Romance languages at Brooklyn College for twenty years and briefly at the University of California in Berkeley. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Now, Catholic Worker, California Quarterly, Milkweed Chronicle, MidAmerican Review,...See more

Roberta Gould is the author of eleven books of poetry. Among these are Writing Air, Written Water, Pacing the Wind, Only Rock, Louder Than Seeds, and her latest released in 2016, To The Dogs and an e-book What History Trammels (2011). She taught Romance languages at Brooklyn College for twenty years and briefly at the University of California in Berkeley. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Now, Catholic Worker, California Quarterly, Milkweed Chronicle, MidAmerican Review, Jewish Currents, Green Mountain Review, Confrontation, Helicon Nine, Socialism and Democracy to name a few, and in anthologies including: The Art and Craft of Poetry, A Slant of Light, Up the River, Rage Before Pardon. Gould was editor of Light: A Poetry Review. She has read her work on public and university radio, Radio Universidad Guadalajara, WKCR, Columbia University, WNYC, Pacifica Radio, at the Pen American Center, the Woodstock Poetry Festival and has exhibited her surreal photography in New York City . She is translator of poetry by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Salvador Espriu, Pedro Garfias, Jorge Luis Borges and other Spanish language poets. An active member of the Haitian People's Support Project and many humanitarian organizations supporting the poor, and the oppressed, she lives near the Ashokan Reservoir in the Hudson Valley, New York, spending time with classical music and birds. robertagould.net See less