Paul Lake (poet) explained

Paul Lake (1951-2022)^[1] was an American poet, essayist, and professor at Arkansas Tech University. Another Kind of Travel won the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence.^[2]

In addition, he won the Richard Wilbur Award for poetry in 2006.

He graduated from Towson University with a B.A. and from Stanford University with an M.A.^{[3] [4]} He had served as the poetry editor for First Things.^[5]

Works

• Book: Lake, Paul . Another kind of travel . University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 1988 . 0-226-46808-9 . 16004321.
• Book: Lake, Paul . Walking backward : poems . Story Line Press . Ashland, OR . 1999 . 1-885266-72-3 . 40901228.
• Book: Lake, Paul . Cry wolf : a political fable . BenBella Books . Dallas, Tex. . 2008 . 978-1-933771-42-7 . 182735228.

Novel

• Book: Lake, Paul . Among the immortals : a novel . Story Line Press . Brownsville, OR . 1994 . 0-934257-73-6 . 29955084.

Awards

• Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence (1988)
• Richard Wilbur Award (2006)

External links

• "Only Connect: A Conversation With Paul Lake", Perihelion, Joan Houlihan
• Guest Essayist: Paul Lake
• "Laureate of the Plains: Timothy Murphy's Very Far North", Contemporary Poetry Review
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry

Reviews

• Walking Backward

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paul Lake III Obituary (1951 - 2022) the Courier . .
2. http://www.atu.edu/english/faculty_lake.shtml Faculty Lake
3. Web site: Paul Lake . 2011-06-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929192633/http://www.cprw.com/lake2.htm . 2011-09-29 .
4. Web site: Poet of the Month: Paul Lake . 2011-06-30 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030507/http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/lake/intro.html . dead .
5. Web site: First Things Masthead. www.firstthings.com. 2018-02-20.