Discipline: Literature

Robert Huff

Discipline: Literature
Region: Bellingham, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963
Robert Huff (1924-1993) was an American poet and educator. He studied at Wayne State University, where he received his B.A. (1949) and his M.A. (1952) degrees. He taught at the University of Oregon, Fresno State College, and Oregon State College, and was an associate professor of English and a Poet in Residence at the University of Delaware. Huff's poems appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The Saturday Review, and Poetry, and he authored a volume of verse entitled Colonel Jackson's Ride and Other Poems, (1959). Huff taught at Western Washington University as an English professor for 25 years between 1964 and 1989. He published several books of his poetry, including Colonel Johnson’s Ride (1959). He was in residence at the MacDowell in 1963.

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Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Robert Huff worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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