Pack, Robert (1929– )

US poet. A poet who won many awards, his work, such as Waking to My Name: New and Selected Poems (1980), is considered by some critics to be indebted to the work of Robert Frost.

Pack was born in New York, New York. He studied at Dartmouth (BA 1951) and Columbia University (MA 1953). He taught at Barnard (1957–64) and Middlebury College (Vermont) (1964). Associated with the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, Vermont (1973–93).