Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Poems in this collection have appeared in Salmagundi, Boulevard, The Sewanee Review, Poetry East, Poet Lore, The Indiana Review, The Nebraska Review, Green Mountains Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, Sonora Review, The Sycamore Review, The Midwest Quarterly, WordWrights, and Poetry Northwest. "In his attention to detail and in his reverence for the smallest moments of experience Bruce MacKinnon compounds and intensifies the events of daily life"--Michael Collier. "MYSTERY SCHOOLS is thorough and deeply textured poetry and adult in the way serious poetry should be--by not taking itself too seriously while allowing the writing to take its own good time"--Stanley Plumly. MacKinnon teaches creative writing at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
About the Author
Bruce MacKinnon's poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including Salmagundi, Boulevard, Poet Lore, The Literary Review, The Sewanee Review, and Poetry Northwest, for which he won the Richard Hugo Prize. He has also been awarded the Richard Soref Scholarship in Poetry for the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council, and was selected by Tom Sleigh as an Academy of American Poets Prize winner. He teaches creative writing at The George Washington University in Washington DC.