National Poetry Month: Robbie Gamble's Memo to a Border Patrol Agent

Our Poetry Month series returns! Every Tuesday in April we invite
a Lesley poet to share a poem and speak briefly about their work.
This year, we're starting with Robbie Gamble ’17, who reads and
discusses "Memo to the Border Patrol Agent Who Poured Out the
Water We Left in the Desert."


Find the transcript on the episode page.


About our guest


Robbie Gamble ’17 holds an MFA in Poetry from Lesley. He is the
author of A Can of Pinto Beans, from Lily Poetry
Review Press (2022). His poems and essays have appeared in
the Atlanta Review, Pangyrus, Poet Lore, RHINO, Rust +
Moth, Spillway, Tahoma Literary Review, and The
Sun, among other journals. Recipient of
the Carve Poetry prize, and a Peter Taylor
Fellowship at the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshop, he serves as
poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse
Voices. Robbie worked for 20 years as a nurse practitioner
with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, and he now
divides his time between Boston and Vermont.


Check out last year's poems:


"The Translator" by Kevin Prufer

"As for the Heart" by Erin Belieu

"We Be Womxn" by U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo

Cowboys and "The Dread" by Lydia Leclerc