Elephants and Butterflies

Alan Michael Parker's most recent book is The Ladder, his eighth collection of poems; a coedited volume, The Manifesto Project, appeared in January 2017, and his fourth novel, Christmas In July, will be published in 2018. Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, he also teaches in the University of Tampa low-residency MFA program. His honors include three Pushcart Prizes, two inclusions in Best American Poetry, the Fineline Prize, the Medwick Award, and the North Carolina Book Award.