Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey (born 1959 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

Life

He graduated from the University of Missouri and Iowa University with his MFA in 1981.

He directed the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis,^[1] then taught at George Mason University.^[2]

His work has appeared in Antioch Review,^[3] Antaeus,^[4] Denver Quarterly,^[5] Seneca Review,^[6] Quarry West,^[7] AGNI,^[8]

He lives with his wife and daughter, in Fairfax, Virginia.^[9][10][11]

His papers are held at the University of Washington library.^[12]

Awards

• 1984 Walt Whitman Award selected by Mark Strand
• Ingram Merrill Foundation
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship^[13]
• National Endowment for the Arts^[14]

Works

Poetry

• "Film Still". Courtland Review. Spring 2008. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/08/spring/pankey.html. 
• "DREAM LANDSCAPE WITH THE OLD BRICKYARD ROAD CREEK AND BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON; THE PHRASE OF THINE ACTIONS; SAVANT OF BIRDCALLS; INTERLUDE; SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN". The Beltway Poetry Quarterly 3 (3). Summer 2002. http://washingtonart.com/beltway/pankey.html. 
• "Final Thought". Virginia Quarterly Review: 667–668. Autumn 2002. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2002/autumn/pankey-final-thought/. 
• "An Eagle-Headed Genie Watering the Tree of Life". Virginia Quarterly Review: 667. Autumn 2002. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2002/autumn/pankey-eagle-headed-genie/. 
• "READING IN BED; A WALK WITH MY FATHER; DEBTOR OF HAPPINESS; OVERCOAT; IN MEMORY; ABSTRACTION; SCAFFOLDING; THE PILGRIMAGE OF MY FATHER'S GHOST; APPROACHING ACCADEMIA: A NOCTURNE; IN SIENA, PROSPERO RECONSIDERS THE MARRIAGE AT CANA; THE AUGURY OF PROSPERO; SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN; HOW TO SUSTAIN THE VISIONARY MODE; THE ANNIVERSARY; EPITAPH; PIAZZA S. SPIRITO NO. 9; THE BACK-STORY; THE THOUSAND THISTLE SEEDS; BETWEEN WARS". THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL. Mar 13, 2008. http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_6_21/A_Closer_Look_Eric_Pankey.shtml. 
• Tending the Garden. Yellow Jar Press. 1982.  chapbook
• For the New Year. Atheneum. 1984. ISBN 978-0-689-11507-3. 
• Heartwood. Orchises Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-914061-78-6. http://books.google.com/?id=LCp6b-8fE5AC&dq=Eric+Pankey&printsec=frontcover. 
• Apocrypha. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 978-0-679-40617-4. 
• The Late Romances. Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. ISBN 978-0-679-45454-0. 
• Cenotaph. Knopf. 2000. ISBN 978-0-375-40764-2. 
• Oracle figures. Ausable Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-931337-08-3. http://books.google.com/?id=cKDhouAVRH4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Eric+Pankey#PPP1,M1. 
• Reliquaries. Ausable Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-931337-12-0. http://books.google.com/?id=hRPqwtkkmZsC&dq=Eric+Pankey&printsec=frontcover. 
• The Pear as One Example: New & Selected Poems 1984–2008. Ausable Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-931337-39-7. 

Anthologies

• Hilda Raz, ed (2001). Best of Prairie schooner. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7. http://books.google.com/?id=_tlZAAAAMAAJ&q=Eric+Pankey&dq=Eric+Pankey. 

References

External links

• "interview an interview with Eric Pankey", randomhouse
• "Eric Pankey", January 9, 2009, How a Poem Happens
• "32 Poems Interview with Eric Pankey", Serena M. Agusto-Cox, February 5, 2009, 32 Poems

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