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Eric McHenry (born April 12, 1972 Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2015-2017.

Life

McHenry graduated from Topeka High School. He graduated from Beloit College and from Boston University. In April 2015 he was appointed to a two-year term as Poet Laureate of Kansas by the Kansas Humanities Council.[1]

His work has appeared in The New Republic, Harvard Review, Northwest Review, Orion and AGNI.[2]

He lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his family. He currently teaches at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where he holds the position of Associate Professor of English.

Awards

• 2007 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

Works

Poetry

• Potscrubber Lullabies. Waywiser. 2006. ISBN 978-1-904130-22-2.

Anthology

• Bill Henderson, ed. (2004). The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. The Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.

Essays

• "Auden on Bin Laden", Slate, Sept. 20, 2001

References

External links

• McHenry named Poet Laureate of Kansas
• Kansas Humanities Council

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