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Biography
In addition to his five books of poems, Alan Michael Parker has published two novels and served as editor of the whimsical anthology, The Imaginary Poets (Tupelo, 2005). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Paris Review, The Best American Poetry 2011, and elsewhere. He teaches writing and literature at Davidson College and in the Queens University low-residency M.F.A. program. He lives in Davidson, North Carolina, with the artist Felicia van Bork.Awards
- Fellowships to:
- the Azores Walks Foundation
- the Vermont Studio Center
- the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
- 2007 Finalist for the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize
- 2008 "Established Artist Grant" from the Arts & Sciences Council
- The Monserrat Review's "Best Books of Summer Reading, 2008" for Elephants & Butterflies (BOA, 2008)
Links
An interview with Alan Michael Parker by Colin Winnette at Word Riot:I expect a collection of poems to teach me how to read, just as I do a novel or a collection of short stories; perception seems always at risk, in good art, and I’m interested in the ways that sentences organize perception as opposed to lines. In that sense, then, I think that my expectations of the two genres differ.
Reviews of Alan Michael Parker's The Imaginary Poets