Poetry. "FEEDING THE FEAR OF THE EARTH is an outrageously original collection," Susan Terris writes of the Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest winner. "Reaching across time and space and cultures and genders, Patrick Lawler gathers characters as diverse as Christopher Smart, Ed McMahon, and Rosa Parks. Ecological and ethereal, political and historical, philosophical and physical, this astonishing book is a place where anyone who has walked the earth can rub up against anyone else" - Linda Tomol. Lawler has been awarded fellowships by the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.

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Patrick Lawler is the author of four collections of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), Reading a Burning Book (Basfal Books, 1994), FEEDING THE FEAR OF THE EARTH (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2006), and UNDERGROUND (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2011). He is an Associate Professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he teaches Environmental Writing and Nature Literature. In addition, he teaches creative writing courses at Onondoga Community College and LeMoyne College. Among his awards are fellowships from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.