Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey
Eric Pankey at 2012 Fall for the Book
Born	1959 (1959) (age 56) Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Occupation	American poet and artist

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

Life

He graduated with a BA from the University of Missouri in 1981 and in 1983, his MFA from Iowa University.^[1] In 1987, after teaching English at the high school level and writing poetry, he became the director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis.^[2] He currently teaches at George Mason University.^[3] He lives with his wife and daughter in Fairfax, Virginia.^[1]

His work has appeared in Antioch Review,^[4] Antaeus,^[5] Denver Quarterly,^[6] Seneca Review,^[7] Quarry West,^[8] and AGNI.^[9] His papers are held at the Washington University library.^[10]

Awards

• 1984 Walt Whitman Award selected by Mark Strand
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship^[11]
• National Endowment for the Arts^[12]

Works

Poetry

• "Film Still". Courtland Review. Spring 2008. 
• "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. 
• "Final Thought". Virginia Quarterly Review: 667–668. Autumn 2002. 
• "An Eagle-Headed Genie Watering the Tree of Life". Virginia Quarterly Review: 667. Autumn 2002. 
• "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. 

Books

• 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. 
• 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. 
• Reliquaries. Ausable Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-931337-12-0. 
• The Pear as One Example: New & Selected Poems 1984–2008. Ausable Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-931337-39-7. 
• Dismantling the Angel. Parlor Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-60235-487-6. 

Anthologies

• Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). Best of Prairie schooner. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7. 

References

External links

• official website
• "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