Ed Skoog
{{short description|American poet (born 1971)}}
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|education=Kansas State University
University of Montana (MFA)
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Ed Skoog (born 1971, in Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet.
Life
Skoog graduated from Kansas State University, and from the University of Montana, with an MFA.
He worked at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.{{cite web |url=http://www.kansaspoets.com/ks_poets/skoog_ed.htm |title=Kansas Poet Index: Ed Skoog |website=www.kansaspoets.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823015601/http://www.kansaspoets.com/ks_poets/skoog_ed.htm |archive-date=2006-08-23}}
He taught at Tulane University, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
He lived in southern California, where he was chair of creative writing at Idyllwild Arts Academy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/poetry/skoog_e/index.htm|title = Ed Skoog, Blackbird}}
He was writer-in-residence at the Hugo House.{{cite news| url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/389986_needle29.html| title=Under the Needle: Poetry thrives in a downturn| author= Mike Lewis| date=November 28, 2008| work=Seattle PI}}
He has been the Jennie McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellow at George Washington University.{{Cite web |url=http://davejarecki.com/creative/2009/ed-skoog-poetry/ |title=POETRY BY ED SKOOG | Dave Jarecki |access-date=2009-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113192529/http://davejarecki.com/creative/2009/ed-skoog-poetry/ |archive-date=2009-11-13 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://gwenglish.blogspot.com/2009/03/poet-ed-skoog-to-teach-poetry-writing.html|title = Poet ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop}} Most recently, he was a visiting writer at the University of Montana.
His poems have been published in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and The Paris Review.
Skoog's debut collection, Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), is an alert to disasters and to the hope of rescue. Interior dramas of the self play out in a clash of poetic traditions, exuberant imagery, and wild metaphor. His second book of poems, Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a 2013 Lannan Literary Selection,{{Cite web|url=http://www.lannan.org/programs/literary/|title = Lannan Foundation}} finds unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes. His newest collection, Run the Red Lights, balances the domestic and private with the exhilaration of public performance.
He was the judge for the 2019 Burnside Review Press Book Award.{{Cite news|url=http://burnsidereview.org/book-guidelines/|title=Book Guidelines - Burnside Review|date=2013-07-30|work=Burnside Review|access-date=2018-11-28|language=en-US}}
Awards
- 2005 Marble Faun Prize in Poetry by the Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner Society{{Cite web |url=http://www.wordsandmusic.org/2005FaulknerWinners.html |title=Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society: 2005 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Winners |access-date=2009-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107212518/http://wordsandmusic.org/2005FaulknerWinners.html |archive-date=2010-01-07 |url-status=dead }}
- 2007 Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America{{cite web |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2007/award_1/ |title=Ed Skoog - Poetry Society of America |website=www.poetrysociety.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410033659/http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2007/award_1/ |archive-date=2010-04-10}}
- 2012 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship
Works
- {{cite book| title=Run The Red Lights| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 2016| isbn= 978-1-55659-503-5 }}
- {{cite book| title=Rough Day| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 2013| isbn= 978-1-55659-434-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=Mister Skylight| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year= 2009| isbn= 978-1-55659-293-5 }}
- {{cite book| title=King of Sweden: poems| publisher=University of Montana| year= 1996 }}
- [http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2009/two-poems-0 "West Coast", Narrative, Summer 2009]
- [http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2008-2009/little-song "Little Song", Narrative]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223020446/http://www.aprweb.org/poem/like-night-catching-jackrabbits-its-barbed-wire "Like Night Catching Jackrabbits in Its Barbed Wire", American Poetry Review, Vol. 37 No. 2]
- [http://bodyliterature.com/2012/08/13/ed-skoog/ "The Reinvention of Suffering", Body, August 2012.]
References
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External links
- [http://www.edskoog.com/ "Author's website"]
- [http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/13/seattle_poetry_chain_16_ed_sk "Seattle Poetry Chain", The Stranger]
- [http://kumomusic.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-hundred-project-ed-skoog.html "One Hundred Project: Ed Skoog", KUMO Music, May 4, 2008]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091113192529/http://davejarecki.com/creative/2009/ed-skoog-poetry/ "Ed Skoog", Dave Jarecki]
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Category:Writers from Topeka, Kansas
Category:Kansas State University alumni
Category:University of Montana alumni