Eric Pankey is the author of six previous books: For the New Year, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, Heartwood, Apocypha, The Late Romances, Cenotaph, which won the Poetry Award from the Library of Virginia, and Oracle Figures. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. A professor of English at George Mason University.

Other poems by Eric Pankey in Verse Daily:
June 2, 2003:  "Leave-Taking Above the Missouri" "The way out is up, over, through the thistle gate..."
May 4, 2003:  "The Reconstruction of the Fictive Space" "I open my eyes and a season passes..."