Ed Skoog

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Ed Skoog (born 1971, in Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet.

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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. [1] 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. [2] He was writer-in-residence at the Hugo House. [3] He has been the Jennie McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellow at George Washington University. [4] [5] Most recently, he was a visiting writer at the University of Montana.

He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

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, [6] 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. [7]

Awards

Works

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References

  1. ↑ "Kansas Poet Index: Ed Skoog". www.kansaspoets.com. Archived from the original on 2006-08-23.
  2. ↑ "Ed Skoog, Blackbird".
  3. ↑ Mike Lewis (November 28, 2008). "Under the Needle: Poetry thrives in a downturn". Seattle PI.
  4. ↑ "POETRY BY ED SKOOG | Dave Jarecki". Archived from the original on 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
  5. ↑ "Poet ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop".
  6. ↑ "Lannan Foundation".
  7. ↑ "Book Guidelines - Burnside Review". Burnside Review. 2013-07-30. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  8. ↑ "Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society: 2005 Faulkner Wisdom Competition Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
  9. ↑ "Ed Skoog - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Archived from the original on 2010-04-10.
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