Author
George Looney
George Looney’s most recent book is Open Between Us (Turning Point, 2010). His A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness is due from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2011.
His work has been recognized with an individual artist’s fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and one from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has won awards from literary journals such as the Missouri Review (in 2003 and 2011), Zone 3, New Letters and the Literary Review. Among other duties, he serves as Chair of the BFA in Creative Writing program he created at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, where he is editor-in-chief of the international literary journal Lake Effect. [2011]
CONTRIBUTIONS
Poetry
Jul 01 2011
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Winner of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Poetry
Featuring the poems: To Account for Such Grace, Early Pastoral, The Consolation of a Company of Acrobats, A Temporary Delaying of the Inevitable
Poetry
Mar 01 2003
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Winner of the 2002 Editors’ Prize for Poetry. Featuring the poems An Occurrence of Grace at a Bartok Concert Riffs Thelonius Put Down Memory and Mozart The Insistence of Water… read more
Poetry
Dec 01 1998
Poetry Feature: George Looney
“True North”
“Prayer and the Pain of Backs”
“Darker Without the Herons”