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Tom Roby

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Connection to Illinois: Tom lives and works in Chicago. He is the Inventor of the Poetry Wheel and the President Poets' Club of Chicago.

Biography: Tom Roby left Virginia by way of Colgate University, earning a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago and a NEH fellowship to study Socrates. He spent the next three decades teaching Humanities in Chicago's City Colleges, while continuing educational research on curriculum deliberation and organizing international conferences on classroom discussion. He has published and performed his poetry in many venues in Chicago, while leading workshops, writing criticism, and winning various awards.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Tom Roby on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=tom++roby


Selected Titles

Griever's circuit :
ISBN: 1933126027 OCLC: 60755522

Fractal Edge, Chicago : 2004.

 

 

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