Michael Burkard

Unsleeping and Pennsylvania Collection Agency, Michael Burkard's eighth and ninth collections of poetry, were published in 2001 by Sarabande and New Issues, respectively. His other most recent book, Entire Dilemma, was also published by Sarabande in 1998 and was his first book since W. W. Norton & Company published My Secret Boat (A Notebook of Prose and Poems) in 1990. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and two grants from both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism. (Photograph of Michael Burkard by Nancy Mitchell)