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Michael Burkard

Michael Paul Burkard (1947 – December 23, 2024)[2] was an American poet and educator, who was an Associate Professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University (1997 – 2024),[3] and the author of at least ten volumes of poetry.[4]

Michael Burkard
Born1947 (1947)
Rome, New York[1]
DiedDecember 23, 2024(2024-12-23) (aged 76–77)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPoet
Academic background
Alma materHobart and William Smith Colleges
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Academic work
InstitutionsNew York University
Sarah Lawrence College
University of Louisville
Syracuse University

Education and career

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Burkard graduated from Hobart College (B.A.) in 1968 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1973.[4] He taught at Kirkland College (1975–78) and Sarah Lawrence College (1983–84, 1986–87). In the years between 1968 and 1973 (his two degrees), Burkard spent more than 2 years as a psychiatric aide in a hospital. He has stated that the latter experience was very important to his development and career as a poet.[5][note 1]

Before joining the faculty at Syracuse University beginning in 1997, Burkard was 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).[5]

During his lifetime, hundreds of Burkard’s poems appeared in many publications, including American Poetry Review,[6] The Paris Review, Ploughshares,[7] APR, Ironwood and Quarterly West, to name just a few.[4] His poems were included in the The Best American Poetry anthology four times (2000, 2001, 2004, and 2005).[8]

Awards

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Selected bibliography

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

Anthologies

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Ploughshares

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Notes

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  1. ^ “ Burkard also notes that "in the two and a half years between my undergraduate and graduate work I was a psychiatric aide at McLean Hospital. And in the late 1970's I was a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown. These two experiences were at least as formative as my "degree" days. Meeting with artists at FAWC was terribly helpful and important for me. I have an avid interest in drawing, and have been drawing since 1982, thanks to the suggestion of a dear-artist-friend, Mary Hackett. And I have been writing songs in various ways since I was ten years old. I am as much influenced by art and music as I am literature, and as much by fiction writing as poetry.”
  2. ^ “Michael Burkard's latest book (Pennsylvania Collection Agency) — “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.”[11]

References

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  1. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Michael Burkard". Poets.org.
  2. ^ a b c Bergamini, Lina (December 24, 2024). "Remembering Michael Burkard (1947-2024)".
  3. ^ a b c "Michael Burkard - College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University". May 29, 2024. Archived from the original on 29 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Michael Burkard – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…".
  5. ^ a b c d "MICHAEL BURKARD, poet". www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org. Archived from the original on May 30, 2009.
  6. ^ "Michael Burkard". www.aprweb.org. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011.
  7. ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
  8. ^ a b "Burkard Michael, Author at Plume".
  9. ^ "Michael Paul Burkard - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011.
  10. ^ "Michael Burkard - Artist". MacDowell.
  11. ^ "Jacket 19 - Ethan Paquin reviews Ralph Angel and Michael Burkard". jacketmagazine.com.
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