Ralph Burns (poet)

by George Dance Ralph Burns (born 1949) is an American poet.

Life
Burns was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He received an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. He has authored six collections of poetry, and published in magazines including The Atlantic and the Kenyon Review. For a time he edited Crazyhorse magazine. He teaches creative writing at the Universityr of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Reognition
His 2001 collection Ghost Notes won the Field Poetry Prize. Other awards Burns has won include the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Award for the Best First Book in Poetry and the Iowa Poetry Prize. He has received two fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Publications

 * US. 1983
 * Windy Tuesday Nights. 1984.
 * Any Given Day. 1985.
 * Mozart's Starling. 1990.
 * Swamp Candles. 1996.
 * Ghost Notes. Oberlin College Press, 2001.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Academy of American Poets.