On the Traditional Ode to Melancholy

Ed Roberson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Aquarium Works (Nion Editions, 2022), MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021), and Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His varied career has included work in Pittsburgh steel mills, in an advertising graphics agency, as a limnologist’s assistant, and as a Rutgers University administrator. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the recipient of many honors, Roberson lives in Chicago, where he has taught at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, and the University of Chicago.