Walt Whitman Award
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (1984) Winner
Eric Pankey
エリック・パンキー
Erikku Pankī
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1959 （Kansas City, Missouri）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Kansas City, Missouri → St. Louis, Missouri → Fairfax, Virginia
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Artist, Professor
- Active Years
- 1981-2024
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis, George Mason University
- Influenced By
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Missouri | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| University of Iowa | — | Iowa Writers' Workshop | MFA | — | United States |
University of Missouri
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1981
Country:
United States
University of Iowa
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Degree:
MFA
Year of Graduation:
1983
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Walt Whitman Award | For the New Year | — | Academy of American Poets | winner |
| — | Ingram Merrill Foundation Award | — | — | Ingram Merrill Foundation | winner |
| 2000 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellow |
| — | National Endowment for the Arts | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | grantee |
Walt Whitman Award
1984
Work:
For the New Year
Organization:
Academy of American Poets
Result:
winner
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
Organization:
Ingram Merrill Foundation
Result:
winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
2000
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
fellow
National Endowment for the Arts
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
grantee
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
For the New Year
1984 PoetryPankey's debut poetry collection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award.
HopeNew Year
Heartwood
1988 PoetryPoetry moving from literal and narrative style.
NatureHeart
Cenotaph
2000 PoetryPoetry collection centered on cenotaphs.
DeathMemory
Trace
2013 PoetryExplorations of traces.
TraceLoss
Crow-Work
2015 PoetryPoetry featuring crow-work themes.
CrowsWork
Bibliography
- Tending the Garden
- For the New Year
- Heartwood
- Apocrypha
- The Late Romances
- Cenotaph
- Oracle Figures
- Reliquaries
- The Pear as One Example: New & Selected Poems 1984–2008
- Trace
- Dismantling the Angel
- Crow-Work
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Free verseProse poetrySuggestive style
- Recurring Motifs
- RedemptionDespairReligious impulse
Legacy
Pankey's poetry has moved from literal narrative to Emersonian suggestiveness, hinting at grand comprehensiveness without redemptive fulfillment, evoking a religious impulse akin to T.S. Eliot.
Archives
- Washington University Libraries
Trivia
- Married to poet Jennifer Atkinson. Lives with wife and daughter in Fairfax, Virginia.