Christopher Bursk

Full-length poetry collections • "Dear Terror" (Read Furiously, 2020) • "A Car Stops and a Door Opens" (CavanKerry Press, 2017) • "Unthrifty Loveliness" (WordTech Communications, 2014) • "Selected Poems" (FutureCycle Press, 2014) • The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (University of Arkansas Press, 2006) • The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) • Ovid at Fifteen (New Issues Press, 2003) • Cell Count (Texas Tech University Press, 1997) • "The One True Religion" (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1997) • The Way Water Rubs Stone (Word Works, 1988) • Places of Comfort, Places of Justice (Humanities and Arts Press, 1987) • Place of Residence (Sparrow Press, 1983) • Standing Watch (Houghton Mifflin, 1978) Chapbooks • "The Boy With One Wing" (Finishing Line Press, 2013) • Making Wings (State Street Press, 1983) • "Little Harbor" (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1982)

Bursk's literary honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1995 Pew Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. His awards include the Capricorn Poetry Award, the Green Rose Prize, Milton Kessler Poetry Book Award, the 49th Parallel Poetry Award and the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. His humanitarian honors include the Bucks County Citizen of the Year award from Bucks County Community College, and the Bucks County Humanitarian of the Year award. His humanitarian activities have included working as a probation counselor, volunteering in a shelter for abused women and teaching poetry to prisoners at Bucks County Prison. He has been an advocate for the homeless and an organizer for farm workers’ rights.