Anthony Robinson began writing poems while serving in the US Navy in the day-glo 1990s. He matriculated to the University of Oregon, where he later taught, in various capacities, for ten years. He currently lives and writes in rural Oregon. His poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Court Green, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Lungfull!, No Tell Motel, The Tiny, Verse, ZYZZYVA, and many other journals. His first full-length book is Failures of the Poets (Canarium Books in 2023).