Eric McHenry

Eric McHenry was the poet laureate of Kansas for 2015–2017. His newest book of poems, Odd Evening, was published by Waywiser Press in 2016. His previous books include Potscrubber Lullabies, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 2007, and Mommy Daddy Evan Sage, a children’s book illustrated by Nicholas Garland. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Field, Orion, Harvard Review, Poetry International, and Poetry Northwest, from whom he received the 2010 Theodore Roethke Prize. He teaches creative writing at Washburn University.