Robert Eric Shoemaker

b. 1992

Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker is the digital archivist at the Poetry Foundation. Eric is an interdisciplinary poet, artist, and scholar. He earned a PhD in humanities from the University of Louisville and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the author of three poetry books: Ca'Venezia (Partial Press, 2021), We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications, 2018), and 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing, 2015).