ROBERTS, F(rancis) X.

ROBERTS, F(rancis) X. American, b. 1932. Genres: Poetry. Career: High school English teacher in Wareham, MA, 1959-61; Tanzanian Government, Dar es Salaam, education officer, 1961-63; high school English teacher in Narragansett, MA, 1963-64; teacher at a preparatory school in Boston, MA, 1964-66; Emerson College, Boston, library assistant, 1966-67; Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, librarian, 1967-68; Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, England, lecturer, 1968-75; Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Australia, lecturer, 197579; California State College, Bakersfield, librarian, 1979-80; State University of New York at Buffalo, administrative assistant at Medical School, 1982-84, reference librarian and bibliographer, 1985-86; Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT, library director, 1986-87; University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, professor of library science, 1987-97, library scholar, 1990; writer, 1997-. Makerere University, lecturer, 1972. Publications: POETRY: Feathers and Anvils, 1989; At Length, 1990; Vitae Summa Brevis… (sonnets), 1991; Miscellanea, 1992; Ballad of the Entry-Level Librarian, 1993; Poems for the Kids, 1997; Roundelay and Other Poems, 1998. OTHER: Sixteenth-Century English Humanist Educational Theories and Their Influence on the Development of the American College Curriculum, 1990; (Compiler with C.D. Rhine) James A. Michener: A Checklist of His Work, with a Selected Annotated Bibliography, 1995. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of poems, articles, and reviews to periodicals. Address: 1128 35th Ave., Greeley, CO 80634, U.S.A. Online address: fraober32@aol.com