Patrick Lawler
Associate Professor
The Writing Program Director
Office: 105-C Moon Library
Phone: (315) 470-6914
Fax: (315) 470-6915
Email: pjlawler@esf.edu
ESF Honors:
- Distinguished Teaching Award
(Undergraduate Student Association) 1994 - Empire Forester Award
1995
Education:
- M.A., Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1981
- B.A., English, LeMoyne College, 1976
Research Interests:
- Literature of nature
- Composition and technical writing
- Creative writing (poetry, fiction, plays, screenplays)
- Native issues
- Gender and ecofeminism
- Media and the environment
- Popular culture
- Environmental communication
Publications
- Books:
A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough—a collection of poetry. University of Georgia Press. January 1990. 
(reading a burning book)—a collection of poetry (Basfal Books, 1994) 
Feeding the Fear of the Earth (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006) -winner of Many Mountains Moving book competition
- Books in Progress / Seeking publisher:
- Breathe a Word of It (Poetry)
- e(vaporating)-mail (Poetry chapbook)
- Dream House Dancing (Novel)
- The Meaning of If (Short Story Collection)
- Depth Finder: The Voices of the Loon Lake (Creative Nonfiction)
- Poetry & Fiction in Journals:
Poetry and Fiction have appeared in over 100 journals including American Letters and Commentary, American Poetry Review, Bitter Oleander, Black Clock, Boston Literary Review, Central Park, Court Green, Double Take, Epoch, Flyway, Gargoyle, Georgia State University Review, Harpur Palate, The Iowa Review, Ironwood, The Literary Review, Many Mountains Moving, McSweeney’s, New York Times Book Review, Passages North, Poetry Now, Poetry Wales, Rune, Shade, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Sou'wester, Two Rivers, Verse, x-connect. - Bibliography (Word)
- Selected Work from Various Genres and Sources
- Chapter in Book
"Without a Net: Collaborative Writing." With Linda Tomol Pennisi. In COLORS OF A DIFFERENT HORSE: RETHINKING HOW TO TEACH CREATIVE WRITING, ed. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993. - Play Performed CIRCLE OF WILLIS, by Raina Von Waldenburg, Patrick Lawler, et al. Stage Appearance. Play produced by Blah Blah Theater, Zodiac, Syracuse, NY, 1992.
- Article in a Journal
“Patrick Lawler Stripped Bare by His Brides, Even: Ecotones in the Surrealistic Landscapes” TURNROW (Winter, 2007) : 232 – 242. - Review
“Undreaming" ; review/poem of Michael Burkard’s Unsleeping. PROVINCETOWN ARTS. Vol. 16 (2001-2002) : 115. - Art Installations
“Mock Vanity” with Kim Waale. Shown at Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (1996) - Short Story in E-zine
“If” : short story. DIAGRAM. http://thediagram.com/6_4 (Fall, 2006)
- Chapter in Book
- Work Translated
- "The Animals We Once Prayed To" ; Poem translated into Dutch by Henri Thijs. It is Het Oog van de Roos (Eye of the Rose) www.hetprieeltje.net/oogvanderoos/patricklawler.html
- A DROWNING MAN IS NEVER TALL ENOUGH: Twelve poems translated into Russian by Alexder Lavrovsky. Appeared in Poetry Journal, Minsk, Belarus (2002)
- Anthologies
- ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE & YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY (1985 & 1988)
- ENVIRONMENT: ESSENCE AND ISSUE (1992)
- SHADE: AN ANTHOLOGY (2003)
Honors and Awards
- Grants
- NYS Foundation for the Arts (Fellowship - 1989)
- National Endowment for the Arts (Fellowship - 1990)
- NYS Foundation for the Arts (Fellowship - 1999)
- Saltonstall Artists' Grant (Fellowship - 2001)
- Miscellaneous Competitions/Nominations/Finalist
- Winner—Many Mountains Moving book competition (2004)
- First Prize (Piedmont Literary, Winewood Journal, Nit & Wit)
- Nominated (Lamont Prize, Pushcart Prize - 1983, 1995, 1999)
- Finalist (Pablo Neruda Prize, Green Rose Prize, Four Way Books Levis Prize, Sawtooth Poetry Prize)
- Editor
- Ecopoetry Editor—Many Mountains Movin
Professional Affiliations (current and former)
- Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
- Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
- College Composition and Communication (CCC)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- PEN: An Association of Writers