Robert Sward s" Collected Poems" received attention from Alan Cheuse, bookreviewer for National Public Radio in Encylopedia Britannica, naming it one ofthe top poetry books in North America. Sward has taught at CornellUniversity, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and at the UC Santa Cruz Extension.A Guggenheim Fellow, he is a recipient of the Villa Montalvo Literary ArtsAward. His twenty books include: "Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems"(Coffee House Press), "A Much-Married Man, " a novel, "Rosicrucian in theBasement, Heavenly Sex," and "Three Dogs & a Parrot." Sward serves as contributingeditor to the Internet 's "Web Del Sol" and "Blue Moon Review."