Erica Funkhouser Explained

Erica Funkhouser
Occupation:	Poet
Employer:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.

She graduated from Vassar College with a BA and from Stanford University with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1]

Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,^[2] The New Yorker,^[3] The Paris Review,^[4] Ploughshares,^[5] and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts.^[6]

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim fellowship

Works

• Post & Rail, University of Washington Press, 2018
• "Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006
• "Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008
• "Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation
• Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008,
• Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002,
• The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997,
• Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
• Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983,

Anthologies

• "My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006,
• "The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990,
• "Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004,

Non-fiction

• Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history, Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997,

External links

• "Erica Funkhouser Interview"
• "www.ericafunkhouser.com"

Notes and References

1. http://writing.mit.edu/people/instructors
2. Web site: Erica Funkhouser . .
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4. Web site: The Paris Review - Summer 1977 . 2010-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100613091801/http://theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/70 . 2010-06-13 . dead .
5. Web site: Read by Author | Ploughshares .
6. Web site: About Erica Funkhouser | Academy of American Poets .