Craft: Robert Mezey

Robert Mezey (1935-2020) was an under-appreciated poet who could write with calm confidence in form and free verse; his very fine poems could by turns be beautiful and thoughtful, but with a level of precise artistic choice-making that should be the envy of us all.

He served in the Army and got an undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and was a graduate student at Stanford University. He taught for a year at Franklin and Marshall College, but was suspended after an accusation of inciting students to burn draft cards. In 1976 he joined the faculty at Pomona College where he taught until retiring in 2000.