Robert Grenier is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Iowa Program in Creative Writing. He has taught literature and creative writing at UC Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, New College of California and Mills College.

His works include Sentences, Series, Oakland, A Day At The Beach, Phantom Anthems and OWL/ON/BOU/GH.

In an essay from the first issue of This, Grenier declared: "I HATE SPEECH". Ron Silliman, commenting on Robert Grenier's gesture some years afterward, wrote:

Grenier’s recent "books" have been variously described as folios of haiku-like inscriptions or transcriptions. Examples of his current holograph poems can be seen on-line through the Grenier Author Page at the Electronic Poetry Center (see section below: "External links"). Curtis Faville (who co-edited the The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner with Grenier) states that Grenier "has gone on to produce a new hybrid form--neither "poetry" nor graphic art...which treats words (letters) as a form of literal visual design, in which "legibility" hovers at the edge of apprehension".

Books of Poems

• Dusk Road Games (poems, 1960—66). Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1967.
• Sentences Towards Birds (41 poems from Sentences). Kensington, CA: L Press, 1975.
• Series (poems, 1967—71). San Francisco: This Press, 1978.
• Sentences (500 poems on 5" x 8" index cards, boxed, 1972—77). Cambridge, MA Whale Cloth Press, 1978.
• CAMBRIDGE M'ASS (265 poems on 40" x 48" poster). Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1979.
• Oakland. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1980.
• A Day At The Beach. New York: Roof Books, 1985.
• Phantom Anthems. Oakland, CA: O Books, 1986.
• What I Believe. Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1988.
• What I Believe transpiration/transpiring Minnesota (66 8.5" x 11" pages, unbound, boxed). Oakland, CA: O Books, 1991.
• 12 from r h y m m s (12 4-color 8-1/2" x 11" drawing poems in envelope). Columbus, OH: Pavement Saw Press, 1996.
• OWL/ON/BOU/GH (32 4-color 11" x 17" drawing poems in black portfolio). Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 1997.