Month: November 2019

Silver Beach Road The first forty pages of the book is a nakedly autobiographical look at the first ten years of the author’s life on the water on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Written in gulps and fleeting drizzles or shadows, each section is written in its own style from high diction to short thrusts […]

The book includes four one-act plays, a selection of his award-winning poems, and “Hymn to the Chesapeake,” a poem/play with music.

Here are Arthur’s best poems over a forty-year period. Reading them, one wonders if his affinities for byways and love of dialects will eventually lead the reader around the world.

Arthur visits a wide range of themes ranging from the Russian occupation of Latvia during WWII, a study of the Jamestown colony stripped of its fairy tale sheen, an examination of the sons of Adam, and more.

Based on the poetry of Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and dramatized by Robert P. Arthur, the musical poem/play moves from an out-of-body, life-death experience when Kreiter-Foronda was young to her marriage to South American Indian Patricio Foronda

Phaedra is a postmodern verse treatment of an ancient myth in modern poetry. It won five Port Folio Awards, including Best Play.

Coffee table book with photographs by internationally celebrated pictorialist A. Aubray Bodine.

In stunningly gorgeous and evocative language, Arthur resurrects the almost lost culture and physical presence of the Eastern Shore

This national and international experiment with a new form, the Poem/Play, has been seen by thousands in part or full (San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York City, Norway, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and St. Petersburg, Russia.

This poetic tribute to the Eastern Shore of Virginia helps preserve the people and places of a disappearing culture.

Full length Stage Play – Corey Coots is a rising star in the snake-handling Signs Following Church in the hills of Appalachia. He is supported by his wife, Star, who after his death aspires to become a preacher like her husband.