30 Poets in 30 Days

The Associated Writing Program' Conference' Book Fair is a great place to run into people you know. And that's literally what happened with Todd Robinson. I was ogling the Good Life Review swag and BAM! Ran smack right into the Toddfather himself, like a boulder in the stream of people! Merriment ensued and we asked him to read for us. Technically while in Seattle we were looking for people from elsewhere, as in not Nebraska, but I couldn't pass up the chance to get him on record. And besides, if you know Todd you know the elsewhere label is not totally inaccurate. 

Todd, affectionately known to acolytes as “Toddfather,” is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-ins and Note at Heart Rock. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in such epic venues as Prairie Schooner, Flyway-Journal of Writing and Environment, Kestrel, North American Review, Sugar House Review, Cortland Review, Natural Bridge, Superstition Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Chiron Review, A Dozen Nothing, and many others. Recipient of the 2011-2012 Thompson Learning Community’s Outstand Faculty Award, he has conducted writing workshops with The Seven Dotors Project, The Naturalist School, Nebraska Warrior Writers, Nebraska Writers Collective, and the CURAM center for research in medical devices. He is founder and host of the Kaneko Ar Museum’s Bibliophiiia reading series, which is currently on a long pandemic pause. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Creighton University, and a PhD. From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves as vice president of the board of directors of Big Feels Lab.