Michael Burkard Explained

Michael Burkard
Birth Place:	Rome, New York, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	Hobart and William Smith Colleges Iowa Writers' Workshop
Workplaces:	New York University Sarah Lawrence College University of Louisville Syracuse University

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

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=yeyJ_UMIlyYC&q=Michael%20Burkard&pg=PA47. Notes About My Face. The Best American Poetry 2001. Robert Hass . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 2001. 978-0-7432-0384-5 .

Ploughshares

• Pentimento . Spring 1985 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630101556/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1819 . June 30, 2007 .
• The Family . Spring 1985 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630173705/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1818 . June 30, 2007 .
• Mornings Like a Vase . Spring 1985 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630101855/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1817 . June 30, 2007 .
• https://web.archive.org/web/20020717130035/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=1816 . Side with Stars . 17 July 2002. Spring 1985 . Ploughshares.
• Star for a Glass . Spring 1985 . Ploughshares .
• The World at Dusk . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630173435/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2272 . June 30, 2007 .
• Little Final Sunlight . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares .
• Too Many Drops . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071201003129/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2270 . December 1, 2007 .
• Moon's Rule . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012034640/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2269 . October 12, 2007 .
• The Summer of the Thief . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630102208/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2268 . June 30, 2007 .
• The Brothers . Winter 1986 . Ploughshares . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630173341/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=2267 . June 30, 2007 .

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]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog/resschedule/may/m_burkard.html
2. http://www.aprweb.org/author/michael-burkard
3. Web site: Read by Author | Ploughshares.
4. http://www.gf.org/fellows/2037-michael-paul-burkard
5. http://jacketmagazine.com/19/paq-rev1.html "Ethan Paquin reviews", Jacket 19, October 2002