Bob King
Bob King is an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University at Stark. He holds degrees from Loyola University Chicago & Indiana University (MFA, poetry). His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Red Ogre Review, The Dillydoun Review, Emergence Literary Journal, American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, Muleskinner, Allium: a Journal of Poetry & Prose, Northwest Review, & Green Mountains Review, among other literary magazines. He lives on the outskirts of Cleveland with his wife & daughters. Bob recommends Colors+ Youth Center, a charity focused on strengthening LGBTQ+ youth and allies by promoting individual and community wellness.
Our founders didn’t want freedom
from religion as much as freedom
from that particular religion—
they worried about competing
sects getting too authoritarian,