Michael Heffernan

Professor
(Ph.D. University of Massachusetts)

Office:  KIMP 225
Phone:  (479)575-4301
heffgalway@aol.com

Teaching Interests:

Poetry Writing, Modern American Poetry, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Selected Publications:

The Night Breeze Off the Ocean (EWU Press, 2005), Another Part of the Island (Salmon [IR], 1999), The Back Road to Arcadia (Poolbeg [IR], 1994), Love's Answer (Iowa, 1994), The Man at Home (Arkansas, 1988), To The Wreakers of Havoc (Georgia, 1984), The Cry of Oliver Hardy (Georgia, 1979), and poems in American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and many others

Awards:

three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two grants from the Arkansas Arts Council, two Pushcart Prizes, the Iowa Poetry Prize (for Love's Answer), and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence