Background
Sargent was born in New Orleans in 1912, raised in Mississippi, and was a 1933 graduate of Mississippi State University.
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Robert Sargent
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He also did graduate work at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he worked on the early development of radar, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After serving in the Navy during World World War II, he worked at the Pentagon from the late 1940s until 1972. Sargent began writing poetry in his fifties and published 11 books of poetry.
Sargent"s literary subjects included his family, the American South, art, love, the Bible, and jazz.
His poems were published in a number of literary journals, including Antioch Review, New York Quarterly, Georgia Review, Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review and many others His poems also appeared in a number of anthologies, including Poetry magazine’s The Poetry Anthology.
He was actively involved in several District of Columbia literary organizations, including Washington Writers Publishing House, Word Works, the Folger Poetry Advisory Committee, and the Capitol Hill Poetry Group.
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2006 (aged 94)