Long Lens

Former Fulbright Exchange Professor to France, winner of the Brockman Award (given annually for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian), recipient of the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum, juror for the annual Poet’s Prize, he lives with his wife Phyllis on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina’s barrier islands.

His most recent collection of short stories Costly Habits (University of Missouri Press) was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award.

addition to four previous volumes of poems, four poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories, he has co-edited a book of essays, An Open World, on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris.

His stories and poems, reviews and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Georgia Review.

In 2008 he was Lee Smith Visiting Poet at North Carolina State University.

Founder of Tar River Poetry and its editor for almost thirty years, he was the English department’s first Distinguished Professor

Finally, I honor the memory of Al Poulin, founder of BOA Editions, teacher and my first editor.

Peter Makuck taught at East Carolina University from 1976 to 2006.

Thanks as well to Debra Kang Dean and Philip Raisor for their critical reading of some early versions of various poems

my editor Thom Ward