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Robert Grenier (poet) Robert Grenier (poet) Robert Grenier (born August 4, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of the influential magazine "This" (1971–1974). "This" was a watershed moment in the history of recent American poetry, providing one of the first gatherings in print of various writers, artists, and poets now identified (or loosely referred to) as the Language poets. He is the co-editor of "The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volumes 1-4" published by Stanford University Press in 2010, and was the editor of Robert Creeley's "Selected Poems",