Robin Becker

Robin Becker’s Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems (February 2026) is just out from The University of New Mexico Press. Her previous collections include The Black Bear Inside Me, Tiger Heron, Domain of Perfect Affection, The Horse Fair, All-American Girl and Giacometti’s Dog, all published in the Pitt Poetry Series. Becker has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Liberal Arts Research Professor of English Emerita at Penn State, Becker served as the Penn State Laureate during the 2010-2011 academic year. Her poetry column, “Field Notes,” appeared, for many years, in The Women’s Review of Books, where she served as Poetry Editor. She has published book reviews in many journals including The American Poetry Review The Georgia Review, and Prairie Schooner. Recent poems (2025) have appeared in The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker.