Felicia van Bork, Free Radical, encaustic on panel, 2007
Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and the just-released Elephants & Butterflies (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2008), as well as a novel, Cry Uncle.
He is also Editor of The Imaginary Poets, Co-editor of The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines; his prose appears regularly in journals including The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker and The San Francisco Chronicle. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Pushcart Prize and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Alan Michael Parker teaches at Davidson College, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A. program.
Alan Michael Parker lives in Davidson, NC, with his wife, the painter Felicia van Bork, and their son, Eli.
News:
The first reading from Elephants & Butterflies: Sunday, May 25, 8 p.m. Sykes Auditorium, Queens University, Charlotte, NC. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Kobre, kobrem@queens.edu.
Read Alan Michael Parker's recent review of Tony D'Souza's new novel, The Konkans, in The San Francisco Chronicle.
