Robert Laidler
Assistant Professor
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Robert Laidler
Robert Laidler is an assistant professor at Wayne State and the author of a poetic libretto, The Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, which premiered at Chamber Music Detroit in 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writing Program.
Education
- Master of Fine Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Master of Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Bachelor of Arts, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Awards and grants
- Finalist for The National Poetry Series, 2023
- Finalist for the Driftwood Press Chapbook Competition, 2023
- Nominated for Best of The Net Poetry Anthology, 2023
- Finalist for the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, Missouri Review, 2022
- Finalist for the Driftwood Press Chapbook Competition, 2022
- Long Listed for the Palette Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2022
- Theodore Roethke Hopwood Award (2nd Place), 2022
- Full-length Manuscript Hopwood Award (2nd place), 2022
- Meader Family Hopwood Award winner, 2021
- Theodore Roethke Hopwood Award Finalist, 2021
News mentions
- Scattered to the winds (Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, Chamber Music Magazine, 2022)
- Michigan's juvenile lifers inspire new piece commissioned by Chamber Music Detroit
- Chamber Music Detroit premieres new suite in Beverly Hills
- Ever Young: A Poetry Performance Inspired by the Photography of James Barnor
- Juvenile lifers subject of Chamber Music Detroit performance
- Chamber Music Detroit Presents World Premiere Featuring Imani Winds & Friends in April
- Voice for the voiceless
Selected publications
- "City of Fellowship" & "Fellow child," Ilanot Review
- "The King Killer in Newspaper Ads," Threefold Press
- Excerpt from "Epistle," Missouri Review
- "P," Driftwood anthology
- "Occhiolism," Ghost City Review
- "Wedlock," Poet Lore
- "Immured," Cruel Garters
Courses taught by Robert Laidler
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
- ENG2800 - Foundations of Creative Writing
- AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
Fall Term 2024 (current)
- ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
- AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
- ENG3810 - Poetry Writing
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
- ENG1020 - Introductory College Writing
- ENG2800 - Techniques of Imaginative Writing
- ENG3800 - Introduction to Creative Writing