Rate My Professor Eric McHenry

Eric McHenry is an acclaimed poet who served as Poet Laureate of Kansas from 2015 to 2017, appointed by the Kansas Humanities Council. His debut collection Potscrubber Lullabies (Waywiser Press, 2006) received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University in 2007. Other poetry books include Mommy Daddy Evan Sage (Waywiser Press, 2011), a volume of children's poems, and Odd Evening (Waywiser Press, 2016), a finalist for the 2018 Poets' Prize. He edited Peggy of the Flint Hills: A Memoir by Zula Bennington Greene (2012). McHenry's poems and essays have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, Salon, Slate, Poetry Northwest, The New Republic, Northwest Review, and The American Scholar. His honors also encompass the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest (2011), and second place in the TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prize (2017). Through his poetry, editorial work, teaching, event organization, and committee service, McHenry has made substantial contributions to contemporary American poetry and literary education in Kansas.