Rob Mohr

Poet and Author Rob Mohr

My life here at Lakeside is writing poetry and fiction.

Shadow Love is a book of love.  The challenges created by human beings in love are the central motivation for most of the poems in Shadow Love. My point of departure, even though the poems consider the bliss and pain that come to those who love, was the healing balm of love. 

This book came into being through the discipline and the struggle with words and their sounds needed to create both harmonic rhythm and syntax essential in poetry. In each case, my aesthetic intent was to transform my own perceptions and experience into a coherent and compelling whole which would  awaken the reader’s emotions as they reflect on their own experiences with love.

My introduction to poetry was encouraged early on by Jonathan Williams who introduced me to Charles Olson, an American modernist poet whose contextual poems, and his insight that poems are an emotional energy transfer, had significant impact on my Poetry.

My thanks to  my poet friends --- Margaret Van Every, Michael Warren, Mel Goldberg, Bill Frayer, Judy Dykster Brown, and Jim Tipton --- who once each month share and critique with me in the Not Quite Dead Poets group. And to Linda Moore and Glenda Roman for editorial help. 

Rob is currently the Arts Editor for the Ojo del Lago.

Education: Undergraduate  degree in Architecture and Fine Arts, Masters of Fine Arts  in Painting, Drawing and Art History. Doctorial study in  Spirituality and Post Grad. study of Non-Formal Education.

Rob Mohr
Margaret Van Every reading one of Rob's poems.