Maybe I haven’t been afraid enough
Robert Whitehead received his MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, and has been a resident at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Ashbery Home School, Rensing Center, and Vermont Studio Center.
His work was awarded the 2022 Anne Halley Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming from Best American Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, Verse Daily, JERRY, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a writer and graphic designer for a university hospital.