Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Robert Peebles Arthur (Bob Arthur) (born 1943) is a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a playwright, a critic, a director, and a professor. He has written and published over twenty books and plays and 1,500 articles on the arts. A finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010, he remains best known for his book of poems, Hymn to the Chesapeake, the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers.Eleven of his plays have been pegged "poem-plays," a genre possibly created by Arthur. Additionally, Arthur has founded two national literary journals: BlackWater Review (with poet Juliet Crichton) and Lady Jane's Miscellany" (with poet Jeff Hewitt) in 2009. In 2002, he founded Poetry in Performance,a touring poetry group that starred Lisa Neely, Amber Wood, Sunday Abbott, Jeff Hewitt, and D.D. Delaney. "Poetry in Performance" has featured the music of internationally known singers and performers Gordon Bok, Andy Stewart, and Bob Zentz, as well as the new works of the Blue Marsh Band and the poetry of Virginia Poets Laureate Claudia Emerson and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda.In 2005, he founded San Francisco Bay Press with Jeff Hewitt and his daughter, Hannah, who is Editor-in-Chief. In 2007, he co-founded the Spoken Word Theatre at 40th Street Stage in Norfolk, Virginia, also with Hewitt. He has been a literary and/or drama critic for five newspapers and magazines, including Port Folio Magazine (Virginia Beach), where he co-founded with Bill Candler the Port Folio Awards for dramatic arts," and served as its director for over fifteen years . He is currently the Artistic Director of the Edge Theatre in Belle Haven, Virginia: the Poetry Selection Editor of Northampton House Press; and a former director of a drama program at Tidewater Community College.Arthur is a writer-in-residence in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a former writer-in-residence of Beverly Cordoba Duane's Second Wind Dance Company in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He served out the term as one of three literary advisors for the Poetry Society of Virginia, replacing the great Virginia poet and writer, George Garrett, on the latter's death in 2009. He is currently an Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Virginia.. }
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- Robert_P._Arthur abstract "Robert Peebles Arthur (Bob Arthur) (born 1943) is a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, a playwright, a critic, a director, and a professor. He has written and published over twenty books and plays and 1,500 articles on the arts. A finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010, he remains best known for his book of poems, Hymn to the Chesapeake, the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers.Eleven of his plays have been pegged "poem-plays," a genre possibly created by Arthur. Additionally, Arthur has founded two national literary journals: BlackWater Review (with poet Juliet Crichton) and Lady Jane's Miscellany" (with poet Jeff Hewitt) in 2009. In 2002, he founded Poetry in Performance,a touring poetry group that starred Lisa Neely, Amber Wood, Sunday Abbott, Jeff Hewitt, and D.D. Delaney. "Poetry in Performance" has featured the music of internationally known singers and performers Gordon Bok, Andy Stewart, and Bob Zentz, as well as the new works of the Blue Marsh Band and the poetry of Virginia Poets Laureate Claudia Emerson and Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda.In 2005, he founded San Francisco Bay Press with Jeff Hewitt and his daughter, Hannah, who is Editor-in-Chief. In 2007, he co-founded the Spoken Word Theatre at 40th Street Stage in Norfolk, Virginia, also with Hewitt. He has been a literary and/or drama critic for five newspapers and magazines, including Port Folio Magazine (Virginia Beach), where he co-founded with Bill Candler the Port Folio Awards for dramatic arts," and served as its director for over fifteen years . He is currently the Artistic Director of the Edge Theatre in Belle Haven, Virginia: the Poetry Selection Editor of Northampton House Press; and a former director of a drama program at Tidewater Community College.Arthur is a writer-in-residence in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and a former writer-in-residence of Beverly Cordoba Duane's Second Wind Dance Company in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He served out the term as one of three literary advisors for the Poetry Society of Virginia, replacing the great Virginia poet and writer, George Garrett, on the latter's death in 2009. He is currently an Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Virginia.".