Bibliography
Magazine Publications:
In the last ten years, King has published poems in: American Life in Poetry, Ascent, Atlanta Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, The Cape Rock, The Carolina Quarterly, Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Connecticut River Review, Cream City Review, Dalhousie Review; Descant; Ellipsis, Ekphrasis, Facets: A Literary Magazine, Great River Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, HeartLodge, Hiram Poetry Review, Louisiana Review, The Louisville Review, Lullwater Review, Margie, Malahat Review, Many Mountains Moving, The Massachusetts Review, Midwest Quarterly, Milkwood Review, Missouri Review, New Orleans Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Northeast, The Paterson Literary Review, Pearl, Plainsongs, Poet Lore, Poetry, Potomac Review, Potpourri, Rattle, Red Rock Review, Rio Grande Review, The Saint Anne’s Review, Shenandoah, South Dakota Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sundog, Sycamore Review, Tar River Poetry, and West Wind Review.
Short fiction has appeared in Ascent, The Baltimore Review, The Cream City Review, Crab Creek Review, and Potomac Review. One of his short fictions appears in the anthology New Sudden Fiction: Short-short Stories from America and Beyond (Shapard and Thomas, eds. W. W. Norton, 2007).
His creative non-fiction essays, a blend of personal experience with regional or natural history, have been published in Arkansas Quarterly, Ascent, Isotope, North Dakota Quarterly, South Dakota Review, and Weber Studies: voices and viewpoints of the contemporary west.
Book Publications:
Old Man Laughing (Poetry)
Ghost Road Press, 2007
Stepping Twice into the River: Following Dakota Waters (Creative non-fiction)
Univ. Press of Colorado, 2005. A finalist for the 2005 Colorado Book Award.
Poetry Chapbooks
What It Was Like
Small Poetry Press Select Poets Series, 2003
Naming Names
Palanquin Press, 2001
Learning American
Frank Cat Press, 1998
A Circle of Land
Dacotah Territory Press, 1990 (out-of-print)
Standing Around Outside
Bloodroot Press, 1970 (out-of-print)
Interview
“An interview with Robert King, South Dakota Review, Summer, 2001.