Robert C. Jones

Robert C. Jones, Editor, Mid-America Literary Review, Mid-America Poetry Review

Robert C. Jones, born in Troup, Texas in 1931, earned three degrees from the University of Texas-Austin. He has taught at the University of Texas-Austin, at the University of Colorado-Boulder, at William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, and Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg. He has been an American Fulbright lecturer in American Literature in Timisoara, Romania (1982-83) and Thessaloniki, Greece (1986-87); resident director of The Missouri London Program (Fall 1984); Exchange Professor of American Literature at Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary (Fall 1991); and a Poet-in-Residence, Writing Workshop director, and Writing Workshop leader in elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities throughout the midwest.

He is the co-author of The Generative English Handbook (Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1968); the co-author of Ismene, a mixed-media opera presented in 1969 as part of Sight/Sound 2 Festival of the Arts at CMSU; and the author of 100 Years, A Pictorial History of CMS (Central Missouri State University, 1971). His poems and other writings have appeared in College English, New Letters, The Chariton Review, English Journal, Polish-AngloSaxon Studies, Studii de Literatura Romana si Comparata, and more recently in such journals and periodicals as Cappers, the Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar, The Boston Review, The Black Warrior Review, America, Sisters Today, Bird Watchers Digest, Naval History, The Sewanee Review, The Horn Book, Cicada.

Robert Jones is co-chair of the Warrensburg Writers Circle, editor of The Mid-America Press, Inc., and editor of The Mid-America Poetry Review. The Mid-America Poetry Review, publishes well-crafted poetry primarily from -- but not limited to -- poets living in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.