Robert Hershon was born in Brooklyn in 1936. A graduate of New York University, he was executive director of The Print Center for 35 years and has been co-editor of Hanging Loose Press since its founding in 1966. Hershon has won two Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Hanging Loose Authors
Robert Hershon
Books by Robert Hershon
4 Telling
Calls From The Outside World
A Blue Shovel
Into a Punchline: Poems 1984-1994
Goldfish and Rose
End of the Business Day
UNVEILING: Poems and Paintings
How to Ride on the Woodlawn Express
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.