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Robert Gantt has been a resident of Jacksonville, Florida since 1984, a western North Carolina transplant. Educated at Lenoir-Rhyne College and the University of North Carolina, he is by education a mathematician and physicist, by vocation an information systems architect and by avocation a poet, lyricist, gardener, historian, and shower baritone. His great-grand uncle, James Larkin Pearson, was the Poet-Laureate of the State of North Carolina.

He collects and plays unusual musical instruments, such as the Ocarina, Concertina, Mbira, and a really neat looking brass horn that looks like a Chinese dragon which he blows only to greet the new year. His religion is non-Conformist, his politics outrageous, and his personal habits unmentionable.

His poetry is influenced his rural southern heritage, his continuing spiritual journey, and the sharp contrast between his current life and his dreams. He is a militant Peter Pan locked into convention by agoraphobia. He is a would-be Gandhi addicted to his bottle and board and a nice warm bed. His poems are the observations of a hungry dog tied too long.

Robert was a prize winner in the 2000 and 2002 Orange Park Poetry in the Park contests is the author of The Crows, a poetry chapbook, and has been published in The Snake Nation Review.


Robert Gantt

Robert Gantt has been a resident of Jacksonville, Florida since 1984, a western North Carolina transplant. Educated at Lenoir-Rhyne College and the University of North Carolina, he is by education a mathematician and physicist, by vocation an information systems architect and by avocation a poet, lyricist, gardener, historian, and shower baritone. His great-grand uncle, James Larkin Pearson, was the Poet-Laureate of the State of North Carolina. He collects and plays unusual musical instruments, such as the Ocarina, Concertina, Mbira, and a really neat looking brass horn that looks like a Chinese dragon which he blows only to greet the new year. His religion is non-Conformist, his politics outrageous, and his personal habits unmentionable. His poetry is influenced his rural southern heritage, his continuing spiritual journey, and the sharp contrast between his current life and his dreams. He is a militant Peter Pan locked into convention by agoraphobia. He is a would-be Gandhi addicted to his bottle and board and a nice warm bed. His poems are the observations of a hungry dog tied too long. Robert was a prize winner in the 2000 and 2002 Orange Park Poetry in the Park contests is the author of The Crows, a poetry chapbook, and has been published in The Snake Nation Review.