Michael Burkard | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Poet |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Hobart and William Smith Colleges Iowa Writers' Workshop |
Academic work | |
Institutions | New York University Sarah Lawrence College University of Louisville Syracuse University |
Michael Paul Burkard is an American poet.
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.
Michael Burkard.
Michael Burkard.
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]