Professor Dr. Roland Flint
Recording dated October 8, 1983
Born February 27, 1934 in Park River, North Dakota, he attended the University of North Dakota before joining the United States Marine Corps. He served in post-war Korea and then returned to and graduated from the University of North Dakota. He earned an MA in English from Marquette University and a Ph. D from the University of Minnesota where he wrote his dissertation on the early work of Theodore Roethke and began to publish his own poetry.
Dr. Flint read his poetry all over the country including the Folger Library and the Library of Congress. He was a professor of English at Georgetown University from 1968-1997, and received several university awards for his teaching. He also receives two National Endowment for the Arts Grants.
Flint had a phenomenal memory for poetry, and could recite thousands of poems he knew "by heart". He was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1995-2000, when he resigned due to poor health. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2001 at the age of 66. His papers are held at the University of Maryland.
Publications
Easy (Louisiana State University, 1999)
Pigeon (North Carolina Wesleyan, 1991)
Hearing Voices, with William Stafford, (Willamette University, 1991)
Stubborn (University of illinois1990)
Sicily (North Carolina Wesleyan, 1987)
Resuming Green (The Dial Press, 1982)
Say It (Dryad Press, 1979)
The Honey (Unicorn Publications, 1976)
And Morning (Dryad Press, 1975)
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