Paul Lake (poet)
{{short description|American poet}}Paul Lake (1951-2022){{cite web | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/couriernews/name/paul-lake-obituary?id=33461529 | title=Paul Lake III Obituary (1951 - 2022) the Courier | website=Legacy.com }} was an American poet, essayist, and professor at Arkansas Tech University. Another Kind of Travel won the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090622180158/http://www.atu.edu/english/faculty_lake.shtml Faculty Lake]
In addition, he won the Richard Wilbur Award for poetry in 2006.
He graduated from Towson University with a B.A. and from Stanford University with an M.A.{{cite web |url=http://www.cprw.com/lake2.htm |title=Paul Lake |accessdate=2011-06-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929192633/http://www.cprw.com/lake2.htm |archivedate=2011-09-29 }}{{Cite web |url=http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/lake/intro.html |title=Poet of the Month: Paul Lake |access-date=2011-06-30 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030507/http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/lake/intro.html |url-status=dead }} He had served as the poetry editor for First Things.{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstthings.com/masthead|title=First Things Masthead|last=|first=|date=|website=www.firstthings.com|accessdate=2018-02-20}}
Works
- {{cite book | last=Lake | first=Paul | title=Another kind of travel | publisher=University of Chicago Press | publication-place=Chicago | date=1988 | isbn=0-226-46808-9 | oclc=16004321}}
- {{cite book | last=Lake | first=Paul | title=Walking backward : poems | publisher=Story Line Press | publication-place=Ashland, OR | date=1999 | isbn=1-885266-72-3 | oclc=40901228}}
- {{cite book | last=Lake | first=Paul | title=Cry wolf : a political fable | publisher=BenBella Books | publication-place=Dallas, Tex. | date=2008 | isbn=978-1-933771-42-7 | oclc=182735228}}
=Novel=
- {{cite book | last=Lake | first=Paul | title=Among the immortals : a novel | publisher=Story Line Press | publication-place=Brownsville, OR | date=1994 | isbn=0-934257-73-6 | oclc=29955084}}
Awards
- Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence (1988)
- Richard Wilbur Award (2006)
References
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External links
- [http://webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-profile13.htm "Only Connect: A Conversation With Paul Lake"], Perihelion, Joan Houlihan
- [http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/journal/lake1.html Guest Essayist: Paul Lake]
- [http://www.cprw.com/Lake/murphy.htm "Laureate of the Plains: Timothy Murphy's Very Far North"], Contemporary Poetry Review
- [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7876 Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry]
;Reviews
- [http://www.marckbeggs.com/ALF/books/LakeAd.htm Walking Backward]
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Category:Arkansas Tech University faculty
Category:Towson University alumni