Michael Waters

Rank: Professor
E-Mail: mgwaters@salisbury.edu
Office: Holloway Hall 360 Telephone: (410) 543-6540

Degree: Ph.D. Ohio University, 1977
Academic Specialty: Creative Writing; American Literature

Books: Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2001); Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (BOA Editions, 1997); Bountiful (Carnegie Mellon UP, 1992); The Burden Lifters (Carnegie Mellon UP, 1989); Anniversary of the Air (Carnegie Mellon UP, 1985); Not Just Any Death (BOA Editions, 1979); Fish Light ( Ithaca House, 1975);

Editions: Contemporary American Poetry. Eighth Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), Seventh Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). A. Poulin, Jr.: Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2001). Dissolve to Island: On the Poetry of John Logan (Ford-Brown & Co., 1984);

Journals: The Yale Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, TriQuarterly, Field, New Letters, Shenandoah, Chelsea, The Pushcart Prize, numerous anthologies.

Fellowships/Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship; Individual Artist Awards, Maryland Arts Council; 3 Pushcart Prizes; Residency Fellowships: Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland); St. James Cavalier Centre (Malta).

Teaching /Service: Salisbury University, 1978-present; Fulbright Lecturer, University Al. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania, 2007; Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Wichita State University, 2006; Stadler Poet-in-Residence, Bucknell University, 2005; University of Maryland, 1995; Banister Writer-in-Residence, Sweet Briar College, 1987-89; Visiting Professor of American Literature, University of Athens, Greece, 1981-82; Ohio University, 1977-78; Summer Programs: New England College MFA Program; Prague Summer Program; Ropewalk Writers Retreat, New Harmony, IN; Catskill Poetry Workshop, Hartwick College; Writers' Center, Chautauqua Institution; West Virginia Writers’ Workshop; readings at universities throughout the US and abroad, including Al-Merbid Poetry Festival, Baghdad, Iraq; University of Toulouse-Le Mirail.

Chair, Poetry Panel, National Book Award, 2004; Contributing Editor, The Pushcart Prize; Member, Poets' Prize Committee; Director, Writers-on-the-Shore, SU.

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