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Paul Lake

Position

Professor of English

Specializations

Creative writing, poetry

Office

Witherspoon 144

Degree

M.A., Stanford University

Phone

968-0637

e-mail

paul.lake@mail.atu.edu

On August 12, 2004, Paul Lake and nineteen other recipients of the Porter Fund Award were recognized at a reception hosted by Mack McLarty at the Reception Hall of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. Mr. Lake, the 1988 recipient of the award given annually to an outstanding Arkansas author, has published three books since coming to Tech: Another Kind of Travel, Walking Backward, and Among the Immortals

On February 26, 2007, Professor Lake discussed four of his poems -- "Redcoats," "Simon Says," "News from Gaza," and "Three Holdiays in One Afternoon" -- in an Honors Comp class at Tech. Click here to view a video of this discussion.