Robert Strong is a poet and scholar whose innovative work combines archival research with literary production.  He is the founding column editor of Poetic Research at Common-place and teaches at Bates College in Maine.  His most recent book of poetry, Bright Advent (Marie Alexander Series at White Pine Press), centers on the translation of the bible into Algonquian in 17th-century Massachusetts.

“A book of serious imagination.”  ~Maurice Manning

“A stunning look at our nation’s emergence and its tremendous moral cost.” ~Cole Swensen