Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker is a novelist, poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He has written and lectured widely--including at the Sorbonne and on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin--on subjects ranging from the history of beach house art to casinos that sell Matisse paintings. The author or editor of seventeen books, including WHALE MAN, The Ladder, and Christmas in July , he has received numerous awards, including three Pushcart Prizes, two inclusions in Best American Poetry , the North...See more

Alan Michael Parker is a novelist, poet, essayist, and cultural critic. He has written and lectured widely--including at the Sorbonne and on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin--on subjects ranging from the history of beach house art to casinos that sell Matisse paintings. The author or editor of seventeen books, including WHALE MAN, The Ladder, and Christmas in July , he has received numerous awards, including three Pushcart Prizes, two inclusions in Best American Poetry , the North Carolina Book Award, two Randall Jarrell Poetry prizes, the Fineline Award, the Brockman-Campbell Award, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems have appeared in Antaeus, Boulevard, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly , and many other journals. He is Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, and he also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Tampa. DAYS LIKE PROSE (WordFarm, 2019) is his latest book. See less