Michael Burkard will read from his works of poetry in next Raymond Carver Lecture Series installment

Saturday, March 24, 2001, By News Staff

Michael Burkard will read from his works of poetry in next Raymond Carver Lecture Series installmentMarch 24, 2001Jonathan Hayjhay@syr.edu

Poet Michael Burkard will read from his work at 5:45 p.m. March 28 in Syracuse University’s Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall. The event, part of the Raymond Carver Lecture Series, is free and open to the public. Burkard, assistant professor of English in The College of Arts and Sciences, is the author of eight collections of poetry, including “Unsleeping” (Sarabande Books, 2001), “Entire Dilemma” (Sarabande Books, 1998) and “Fictions from the Self” (Ww. Norton, 1988). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Poetry Society’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and two grants from both the New York State Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Raymond Carver Reading Series is supported by The College of Arts and Sciences, the SU Library Associates, Stephen King, the Dr. Scholls Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.