Paul B. Roth lives, writes, and works where he was raised outside of Syracuse, New York. He not only attended the University of Tampa where he studied with Silvia Scheibli, Alan Britt, Steve Barfield and others under Duane Locke, but also the American School in Jerusalem, and George Washington University, until eventually becoming a graduate of Vermont's Goddard College (1973), from which he also earned his Masters in Contemporary French Poetry (1978). His poems have been published in either their original text or translation by journals in such countries as Japan, Italy, Romania, India, Syria, Ecuador, France, Mexico, Algeria as well as extensively in the United States. He is the author of nine published books, After the Grape (University of Tampa Press—1969) Basements of Tears (Ann Arbor Review Press—1973), Half-Said (The Bitter Oleander Press—1976), Nothing Out There (Vida Publishing, Inc—1996), Fields Below Zero (Cypress Press—2002), Cadenzas by Needlelight (Cypress Press—2009), Words the Interrupted Speak (March Street Press—2011), Long Way Back to the End (Rain Mountain Press—2014), Owasco: A Passage of Lake Poems (Finishing Line Press—2018) and assisted in translating from the Chinese, Long River: Poems by Yang Jian, with Ye Chun & Gillian Parrish (Tinfish—2018). His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize once in 2018 and then again in 2020. Roth is also the founder, and has been the editor and publisher of The Bitter Oleander Press since 1974 and then, after a brief seventeen year hiatus, again from 1995 to the present.

Other poems by Paul B. Roth in Verse Daily:

Books by Paul B. Roth:

Other poems on the web by Paul B. Roth:
Two poems
"Deafening Music"
"One Possible Dissemination"
Four poems
Five poems

About The Bitter Oleander: