Mandatory Evacuation

Peter Makuck is the author of numerous BOA books, most recently Long Lens: New & Selected Poems (2010). In addition to five previous volumes of poems, five poetry chapbooks, and three collections of short stories, he has co-edited a book of essays,An Open World, on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris. Two-time winner of the Brockman-Campbell Award (given annually for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian), he is also the recipient of the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum and served as a juror for the annual Poet’s Prize. A nominated Former Fulbright Exchange Professor to France, he was the Lee Smith Visiting Poet at North Carolina State University in 2008, and has also been a visiting writer at Brigham Young University (2000) and University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2011). His stories, poems, reviews, and essays appear widely in such places asPoetry, The Nation, North American Review, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review andThe Sewanee Review. Makuck is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University, where he founded and editedTar River Poetry for almost thirty years. He currently lives with his wife Phyllis on Bogue Banks of Pine Knoll Shores, one of North Carolina’s barrier islands.