Michael Burkard

Michael Paul Burkard is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Hobart College and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1973. He taught at Kirkland College (1975–78) and Sarah Lawrence College (1983–84, 1986–87), and has taught in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University since 1997. He has been a visiting writer at New York University (1991) and the University of Louisville (1992, 1996), as well as a writer-in-residence at Austin Peay State University (1990).

During the 1990s he has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism.^[1]

His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,^[2] The Paris Review, Ploughshares,^[3] APR, Ironwood and Quarterly West.

Awards

• 2008 Guggenheim Fellow ^[4]
• 1984, 1985, and 1999 Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Award, from American Poetry Review
• 1986 Denise and Mel Cohen Award, from Ploughshares
• 1988 Whiting Writers' Award
• two NEA grants
• Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America
• 1978-79 Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship
• 1982 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
• two New York Foundation for the Arts grants

Works

• "Copy Book", The Marlboro Review
• "Cherry Eye", American Poetry Review
• Envelope of night: selected and uncollected poems, 1966-1990. Nightboat Books. 2008. ISBN 9780976718567. 
• Unsleeping. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN 9781889330532. http://books.google.com/?id=ZdIKKDL8lVsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Michael+Burkard#v=onepage&q=. 
• Pennsylvania Collection Agency. New Issues/Western Michigan University. 2001. ISBN 9781930974005. 
• Entire Dilemma. Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 9781889330181. http://books.google.com/?id=Ddg6ejcKS_sC&dq=Michael+Burkard&printsec=frontcover&q=. 
• My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 9780393307484. 
• Fictions from the Self. W. W. Norton & Company. 1989. ISBN 9780393305685. 
• Ruby for Grief. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1982. ISBN 9780822934509. 
• The Fires They Kept. Los Angeles: Metro Book Co.. 1986. ISBN 9780915371037. 
• In a white light: poems. L'Epervier Press. 1977. ISBN 0934834725. 

Anthologies

• Robert Hass, David Lehman, ed (2001). "Notes About My Face". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743203845. http://books.google.com/?id=yeyJ_UMIlyYC&pg=PA47&dq=Michael+Burkard&q=Michael%20Burkard. 

Ploughshares^{[dead link]}

• "Pentimento". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1819. ^{[dead link]}
• "The Family". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1818. ^{[dead link]}
• "Mornings Like a Vase". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1817. ^{[dead link]}
• "Side with Stars". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1816. ^{[dead link]}
• "Star for a Glass". Ploughshares. Spring 1985. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1815. 
• "The World at Dusk". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2272. ^{[dead link]}
• "Little Final Sunlight". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2271. 
• "Too Many Drops". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2270. ^{[dead link]}
• "Moon's Rule". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2269. ^{[dead link]}
• "The Summer of the Thief". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2268. ^{[dead link]}
• "The Brothers". Ploughshares. Winter 1986. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2267. ^{[dead link]}

Reviews

Michael Burkard’s latest book — full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets — is similarly lingering and resonant. Fifteen years passed between the writing of the poems that became Pennsylvania Collection Agency and their publication as a cohesive collection by New Issues, yet they’re not dated.^[5]

References

1. ^ http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog/resschedule/may/m_burkard.html
2. ^ http://www.aprweb.org/author/michael-burkard
3. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=218
4. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/2037-michael-paul-burkard
5. ^ "Ethan Paquin reviews", Jacket 19, October 2002

External links

Audio: Michael Burkard reads "The Eyeglasses" from My Secret Boat (1990)

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