Robert Bly encompasses numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement". Bly remains one of the most hotly debated American artists of the past half century. What is it about Bly and his ideas that inspires such impassioned responses from readers and associates?

The psychologist Robert Moore believes that "When the cultural and intellectual history of our time is written, Robert Bly will be recognized as the catalyst for a sweeping cultural revolution."

And literary critic Charles Molesworth suggests that some of Bly's importance and complication lies in the fact that he "writes religious meditations for a public that is no longer ostensibly religious." Bly is the author of A Little Book on the Human Shadow, Iron John: A Book About Men, and Soul is Here. He co-edited with James Hillman and Michael Meade the phenomenal collection of poetry Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. His inspired Rumi poetry reading with Coleman Barks accompanied by Eugene Friesen and Arto Tuncboyacyan was one of the highlights of Mythic Journeys '04. We are delighted and grateful for his return in '06.

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