Nightboat Books mourns the passing of our author and founding advisory board member Michael Burkard, who died on December 23, 2024, at the age of 77. Burkard was the author of several books of poetry, including two from Nightboat: lucky coat anywhere (2011) and Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966–1990 (2008). His other collections include Unsleeping (2001), Pennsylvania Collection Agency (2001), Entire Dilemma (1998), My Secret Boat (1990), Fictions from the Self (1980), and Ruby for Grief (1982). He was the recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award, as well as fellowships…

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