Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey

Eric Pankey

Professor

Creative Writing: Poetry Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Eric Pankey (MFA, University of Iowa, 1983) is the author of many collections of poems: For the New Year (Atheneum 1984),which was selected as the winner of the Walt Whitman, Heartwood (Atheneum 1988), which was reissued by Orchises Press in 1998,  Apocrypha (Alfred A. Knopf 1991), The Late Romances (Alfred A. Knopf 1997), Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf 2000), Oracle Figures (Ausable Press 2003), Reliquaries (Ausable Press 2005), The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems (Ausable Press 2008), Trace (Milkweed Editions 2013), Dismantling the Angel (Free Verse Editions 2013), which won the New Measures Prize, Crow-Work (Milkweed Editions 2015), Augury (Milkweed Editions 2017), The Owl of Minerva (Milkweed Editions 2019), Vestiges: Notes, Responses, and Essays 1988-2018 (Parlor Press 2019), Alias:Prose Poems (Free Verse Editions 2020) and Not Yet Transfigured (Orison Books 2021). His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such journals as The Iowa Review, The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review,The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review.  His work has been supported by fellowships from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Brown Foundation.  He teaches poetry workshops and courses on modern and contemporary poetry. He is professor of English and the Heritage Chair in Writing at George Mason University. A new chapbook, The Future Perfect: A Fugue, which won the 2020 Snowbound Chapbook Award, is out from Tupelo Press now.  Two new books are forthcoming: The History of the Siege (Codhill Press 2024) and Vanishments (Slant Books 2024).

Current Research

Eric Pankey is a visual artist as well as a poet. His paintings, drawings, collages, and photographs have appeared in juried group shows around the country and in many literary and cultural journals online and in print.

 

Selected Publications

Crow-Work  (Milkweed Editions 2015)

Augury (Milkweed Editions 2017)

Vestiges:Notes, Responses, & Essays 1988-2018 (Parlor Press 2019)

Owl of Minerva (Milkweed Editions 2019)

Alias: Prose Poems (Free Verse Editions 2020)

Not Yet Transfigure (Orison Books 2021)

 

 

 

Expanded Publication List

For the New Year (Atheneum 1984)

Heartwood (Atheneum 1988) (reissued Orchises Press 1998)

Apocrypha (Alfred A. Knopf 1991)

The Late Romances (Alfred A. Knopf 1997)

Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf 2000)

Oracle Figures (Ausable Press 2003)

Reliquaries (Ausable Press 2005)

The Pear as One Example: New and Selected Poems (Ausable Press 2008)

Trace (Milkweed Editions 2013)

Dismantling the Angel (Free Verse Editions 2014)

Crow-Work  (Milkweed Editions 2015)

Augury (Milkweed Editions 2017)

Vestiges:Notes, Responses, & Essays 1988-2018 (Parlor Press 2019)

Owl of Minerva (Milkweed Editions 2019)

Alias: Prose Poems (Free Verse Editions 2020)

Not Yet Transfigured (Orison Books 2021)

Education

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