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.

His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, APR, Ironwood and Quarterly West.

Awards

• 2008 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1984, 1985, and 1999 Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Award, from American Poetry Review
• 1986 Denise and Mel Cohen Award, from Ploughshares
• 1988 Whiting 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

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.

External links

• Audio: Michael Burkard reads "The Eyeglasses" from My Secret Boat (1990)
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation