Career
After a life-threatening illness in the year 2000 Roberts decided to publicly share his work. His writing is influenced both by his long Oklahoman and Native American heritage as well as by national and international topics including cultural, political, and social issues. Different organizations refer people to his poetry web site to fight alcoholism, drug abuse, and terrorism.
Several poems and articles were published by The Poetic Voices Magazine, The Poetry Sharings Journal and on the internet.
In answer to it Roberts was asked to read his poems and talk about poetry in schools, universities, and at poetry festivals. In 2005 Roberts was awarded to represent the United States with 9 other writers at the Odyssey International Festival in Amman, Jordan.
His poems are mainly written in free verse ignoring traditional rules such as regular meter, rhyme, and alliteration. According to Roberts these characteristics of poetry "would not translate the same in other languages." (The Oklahoman, August 21, 2005) The focus of his work is rather its critical content.
Therefore, social topics such as drinking and driving, rape, political, and historic issues such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Iraq, hunger and poverty, and cultural discussions about poetry, art and science build the content of this modernist poetry.