Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing: The Bennington Writing Seminars

Core Faculty

Michael Burkard, Poetry

Burkard’s books of poems are New and Selected Poems (Sarabande Books, 2003), Unsleeping (Sarabande, 2001), Pennsylvania Collection Agency (New Issues Press, 2001), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande, 1998), My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems (W.W. Norton, 1990), Fictions from the Self (Norton, 1988), The Fires They Kept (Metro Book Company, 1986), Ruby for Grief (University of Pittsburgh, 1981), None, River (Ironwood, 1979), and In a White Light (L’Epervier, 1977). He has also published three chapbooks of poems. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Provincetown Arts Journal, Sonora Review, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, and many other magazines. He received a Whiting Writer's Award and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has worked as a contributing editor for Heliotrope, Barrow Street, and The Marlboro Review. Burkard took a BA from Hobart College and an MFA from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has taught at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Louisville, and elsewhere. He presently teaches at Syracuse University and lives in Syracuse, New York.