Michael Burkard

Michael Paul Burkard is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Hobart College in 1968 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

Works
  • "Copy Book", The Marlboro Review
  • "Cherry Eye", American Poetry Review
  • Envelope of night: selected and uncollected poems, 1966-1990. Nightboat Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9767185-6-7.
  • Unsleeping. Sarabande Books. 2001. ISBN 978-1-889330-53-2. Michael Burkard.
  • Pennsylvania Collection Agency. New Issues/Western Michigan University. 2001. ISBN 978-1-930974-00-5.
  • Entire Dilemma. Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 978-1-889330-18-1. Michael Burkard.
  • My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-30748-1.
  • Fictions from the Self. W. W. Norton & Company. 1989. ISBN 978-0-393-30568-5.
  • Ruby for Grief. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8229-3450-9.
  • The Fires They Kept. Los Angeles: Metro Book Co. 1986. ISBN 978-0-915371-03-7.
  • In a white light: poems. L'Epervier Press. 1977. ISBN 0-934834-72-5.

Anthologies
  • Robert Hass; David Lehman, eds. (2001). "Notes About My Face". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0384-5.

Ploughshares

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. Archived May 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Archived June 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=218
  4. Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Ethan Paquin reviews", Jacket 19, October 2002


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