Robert Pringle (poet)

Robert Thomas Pringle (born 1943) is an American poet, schoolmaster and park ranger.

Of Scottish descent and originally from Westerville, Ohio, from 1962 to 1987 Pringle was a schoolteacher, teaching English and biology in high schools. Since then, he has concentrated on poetry, but has also worked as a park ranger at the Inniswood Metro Gardens, as a rural mail carrier, a laboratory technician in bacteriology, a house painter, and as an attendant in a mental hospital.^[1] In 1998 he was the joint owner of a herd of Alpine goats.^[1]

His poems have been published in Orbis, Envoi, Green's Magazine, Onionhead Literary Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Lilliput Review, Psychopoetica, and Pegasus Review.^[1]

In 2004 Pringle’s poem "Ricardo Klement Speaks of Border Wars" won the First Prize in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition.^[2]

Pringle has three children.

• Cold Front (Pudding House Publications, 1998)
• Inventing God (Pudding House Publications, 2008, ISBN 9781589986572)

• Robert Pringle, Inventing God (searchable) at books.google.com