Background
Roland Flint was born on February 27, 1934, in Park River, North Dakota, United States
Roland Flint was born on February 27, 1934, in Park River, North Dakota, United States
Roland attended the University of North Dakota before joining the United States Marine Corps. He served in post-war Korea and then returned to and graduated from the University of North Dakota. He earned an M.A. in English from Marquette University and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he wrote his dissertation on the early work of Theodore Roethke, and began to publish his poetry.
Roland was a professor of English at Georgetown University from 1968-1997, and received several university awards for his teaching. He was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1995-2000, when he resigned due to poor health.
(Poems explore the personal experiences of the author and ...)
1983
Flint had a phenomenal memory for poetry, and could recite thousands of poems he knew "by heart".
In 1962 Roland married Janet Altic, but they broke up in 1973. They gave birth to two daughters and one son. Then in 1979 he married Rosalind Cowie.