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Robert Kirschten, Ph.D.

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About Old Family Movies

Robert Kirschten, PhD is the Director of Creative Writing at Prarie View A&M University.

He is author of James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems;“Approaching Prayer”: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey;

and five books of poems, Old Family Movies, Nighthawks and Irises: Poems about Paintings, Chicago Poems, Looney Tunes: A Comic Book of Poems, and Fribble and Wheeze: a post postmodern Book of Poems.

Kirschten is the editor of Critical Essays on James Dickey, “Struggling for Wings”: The Art of James Dickey, James Dickey: The Selected Poems, and Critical Essays on A.R. Ammons.

He has written eight screenplays in the genre of broad comedy, including HOTEL SCHOOL, BARREL ROLL, CROSSWORD, and TYRANNOSAURUS SEX.

HOTEL SCHOOL is winner of best screenplay at the Red Wasp Film Festival and Finalist: Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival 2011.

BARREL ROLL is winner of best screenplay at Red Wasp and Best Comedy at Woods Hole Film Festival 2011. Finalist: Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival 2011.

CROSSWORD is Quarter Finalist: Creative World Awards Screenplay Contest 2011.

OLD FAMILY MOVIES DVD: Best Shorts Award Winner: Biography, 2011. Selected for New Media Film Festival 2011.

GOOFY TUNES DVD: Best Shorts Award of Merit, 2011.

Kirschten was elected to Who's Who in America in 2009.

He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago in Poetry and Poetics.