Eric McHenry
Eric McHenry (born April 12, 1972 Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2015-2017.
Life
McHenry graduated from Topeka High School. He graduated from Beloit College and from Boston University. In April 2015 he was appointed to a two-year term as Poet Laureate of Kansas by the Kansas Humanities Council.[1]
His work has appeared in The New Republic, Harvard Review, Northwest Review, Orion and AGNI.[2]
He lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his family. He currently teaches at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where he holds the position of Associate Professor of English.
Awards
- 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Works
Poetry
- Potscrubber Lullabies. Waywiser. 2006. ISBN 978-1-904130-22-2.
Anthology
- Bill Henderson, ed. (2004). The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. The Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.
References
- "Poet Laureate". Washburn Review. 2015. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
- http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/E/Eric-McHenry.html
External links
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