Robert Roden lives in Roseville, CA. He is married to Melisa and father to his six children: Kira, Holly, Cohen, Logan, Nova, and Ewan. His poems have appeared in Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Bender, Tears in the Fence, Chiron Review, Rattle, First Class, and Staplegun Press.

Poems on the Net:
"Why I Would Never Run for President"
"(The Plight of) An Average Menelaus"
"The Last of the Great Misogynists Goes Down"
"T'N'T (for Timmy Taylor)"
"Atonement"
"Lucubration #6"
"Mystified (for the Doubting Thomas"
"Near the Bottom"
Three Poems at SPAM.
"Treatise Against Flowery Prose" (PDF journal)

MP3 of Berkeley, CA reading on 10 December 2005.


contact: Robert Roden     upcoming readings: here

He Tripped Over the Small Fence by the Front Porch and Fell on His Face: A Robert Roden Sampler
Aphasia Press (2004)
APE 006    12 pages + CD.
Only 69 numbered copies.
$4.00 postage paid.

A limited-edition item released January 16th, 2004. Mini booklet with 6 printed poems and 8 poems recorded live at various locations on an enclosed mini-cd.
A limited-edition promo item for a reading on June 7th, 2003, this package contains 3 poems by Roden in match-chap format (good for starting fires) along with 2 poems by Derrick Brown and 2 by Joel Chmara. The package also included a mini-disc featuring poems by each of the readers. Part of the Poems-for-All series.

The Bitter Suite
four-sep publications (2003)
28 pages.
$6.00 postage paid.

This book is also available at:
The Book Collector
Sacramento, CA

"Near the Bottom"
Three Poems from The Bitter Suite at SPAM.

Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
Kitty Litter Press (2002)
broadside.
$1.00 postage paid.

Kat Box #3 from Kitty Litter's defunct broadside series. This issue features 5 of Roden's poems.

Soundbites from Over the Counterculture (compact disc)
Aphasia Press (2002)
APE 005    68 minutes.
$10.00 postage paid.

A double album of poems, 66 in all, on one CD. Readings from several of Roden's past and future chapbooks. To hear real audio versions of some poems from this disc, click on the links below:


"Reality in the Zeros"
"Atonement"
"The Lovers"
Slogans Run
Showerhead Press (2000)
36 pages.
$6.00 postage paid.

Contains 21 poems and 7 photographs.
"Lucubration #6"

This book is also available at:
The Book Collector
Sacramento, CA
The Scopophiliac
four-sep publications (2000)
24 pages.
$5.00 postage paid.

"The Last of the Misogynists Goes Down"
"T'N'T (for Timmy Taylor)"
Braille Menus (compact disc)
Aphasia Press (2000)
APE 003    30 minutes.
$7.00 postage paid.

APE 003LE
Limited to 16 signed and numbered.
$10.00 postage paid.

9 poems with interview material.
Limited edition CDR.
 

Hear a realaudio version of Law Aura in Chinatown from this disc.
The Nebulizer
The Inevitable Press (2000)
Laguna Poets Series #153
24 pages.
ISBN 1-891281-75-5
$5.00 postage paid.

This extremely limited edition chapbook, released on 14 January 2000, contains some of Roden's best work to date. Get yours before they're gone.

To read reviews of this chapbook, click here.

 
 

"robert roden entertains a love affair with the paraphernalia of the modern age: "can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em." Marriages are not a state: they're an ongoing process of adjustment. But some are made in hell, or are clearly dysfunctional. robert abuses the telephone, as it abuses him. His automobiles are less than faithful. Sharing mutual stimulation with his Nebulizer, he indulges the expression of an obscure and nuanced relationship, before the light of dawn drives him back to his lair. When he falls in love with a poem, he doesn't dare turn his back on it, because it might just decide to edit him."

    --Pat Cohee
      Laguna Poets
Between Genesis and 666
Aphasia Press (1999)
APE 002
32 pages.
$5.00 postage paid.
To read reviews of this chapbook, click here.
This book is also available at:
The Book Collector
Sacramento, CA
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Venice, CA

 

 

Anorexia

Your long dress is
Already lifted above
Your knees, and as if
We both have something
To prove, I'll ask you
To remove it.
Between Genesis and 666
(limited edition)
Aphasia Press (1999)
APE 002LE.
21 copies: signed & numbered.
32 pages.
$10.00 postage paid.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Assimilation

I would like to learn Spanish
The old-fashioned way-–
Lying in a bed,
Your thigh
As my pillow.
Taking Candles to Parchment
Aphasia Press (1998)
APE 001
24 pages.
$2.00 postage paid.

Features poetry by: Christine Byrne, Peter M. Clark, Shelly M. Cohen, Mike DiSomma, Bianca Dorr, Elliot Fried, Molly Franks, Anna Goulden, Robert Roden, Keri Ann Thorneycroft, Danny S. Torres, Melisa Tye, and Ty Young.
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