Ed Roberson, Distinguished Artist in Residence, taught from 1990-2003 at Rutgers University, and from 2004-2006 at Columbia College in Chicago. He was the recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2008, and was one of three writers honored at the recent Literature, Culture, & Critique conference, organized by Callaloo magazine.Roberson is the author of To See the Earth Before the End of the World [Wesleyan University Press]; The New Wing of the Labyrinth [Singing Horse Press]; City Eclogue, a poetry collection released in 2006; Atmosphere Conditions, winner of the 2000 National Poetry Award series; Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, winner of the 1994 Iowa Poetry Prize; as well as earlier books, including When Thy King Is a Boy; Etai-Eken; and Lucid Interval as Integral Music.