Draft:Robert Piazza

Robert Piazza is an American poet and classical guitarist. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Fairfield University. He teaches the undergraduate poetry elective at Post University and serves as Poet Laureate of Litchfield. .

His poems have appeared in The Lyric, Haiku Journal, Poetry Quarterly, Mystic Blue Review, Society of Classical Poets, Halcyon Days, Founder's Favourites, October Hill Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal , Heart of Flesh Literary Journal , Young Ravens Literary Review , Welter Online , Months to Years Literary Journal , and Helix Literary Magazine

At Boston College, he studied with poet Francis Sweeney, SJ, director of the Lowell Lecture Series and advisor to Stylus, the undergraduate literary magazine. At the Bread Loaf School of English, administered by Middlebury College, he studied with Paul Muldoon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and former poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine. His sonnet "Boston, 1989" won Honorable Mention in the Robert Haiduke Poetry Prize. At Fairfield University, he studied with Baron Wormser, former Poet Laureate of Maine.

For twenty-five years, he taught English at independent and private schools. He served as Head of the English Department at Immaculata-LaSalle High School, Head of the English Department at Hamden Hall Country Day School, and Dean of Studies for Arts and Humanities at the Woodhall School.

At Boston College, he double majored in English and music with a concentration in classical guitar. He performed as a soloist at the Institute of Contemporary Art for First Night Boston. His repertoire includes da Milano, Bach, Beethoven, Carulli, Carcassi, Giuliani, Tarrega, Sor, Bartok, and Brouwer. He also plays folk, rock, and blues on acoustic, 12-string, and electric guitars.