Paul Lake (poet)

Paul Lake (born Baltimore) is an American poet, essayist, and professor at Arkansas Tech University. Another Kind of Travel won the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. ^[1] In addition, he won the Richard Wilbur Award for poetry recently in 2006.

He graduated from Towson University with a B.A. and from Stanford University with an M.A..^[2][3]

Works

• Another Kind of Travel. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46808-2. 
• Walking Backward, Story Line Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-885266-72-9

Awards

• Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence
• Richard Wilbur Award (2006)

Novel

• Among the Immortals, Story Line Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-934257-73-2

References

External links

• "Only Connect: A Conversation With Paul Lake", Perihelion, Joan Houlihan
• Guest Essayist: Paul Lake
• "Laureate of the Plains: Timothy Murphy's Very Far North", Contemporary Poetry Review
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry

Reviews

• Walking Backward