Robert Morgan

```json { "biography": { "name": "Robert Morgan", "birth_year": 1944, "birth_place": "Blue Ridge Mountains, western North Carolina", "upbringing": "Grew up in Henderson County, in a farming community where the rhythms of rural life — planting, harvesting, and the slow turning of seasons — were woven into daily life. This upbringing left a lasting impact, evident in every page he wrote.", "education": { "undergraduate": "University of North Carolina", "graduate": "University of North Carolina at Greensboro" }, "career": { "mfa": "Earned his MFA and later joined the faculty at Cornell University, where he taught for decades.", "tension": "The contrast between Ithaca, New York, and the North Carolina mountains created a unique tension in his work: a poet reflecting on a place and lifestyle that was fading as he wrote." }, "poetry": { "roots": "His poetry is firmly grounded in the physical world, capturing details with a certain stubbornness.…