Robert M. Downey
In our third show, we feature our first UVM student writer, Robert M. Downey, a 23-year-old poet, journalist and editor of the UVM literary journal Vantage Point. Downey reads two poems—including a kind of homage to Urkel—and tells of his multiple and intentional brushes with writer Michael Chabon. (Downey admits to being a bit of a Chabon groupie.) He also talks about the new Burlington Poetry Society, started this fall by a group of current and recently graduated UVM students, as a way to continue their commitment to the writing and reading of poetry.
Listen to the show.
Read his “Poem for Steve Urkel.”
Robert M. Downey is a UVM senior majoring in English and Film. He has been an editor for The Vermont Cynic and phoebe and is the editor of Vantage Point, UVM’s literary and visual arts journal.
Downey has also worked as an intern in the Poetry Office of the Library of Congress and at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C.
