Michael Burke

Title

Professor of English, Emeritus

Department

Creative Writing; English

Information

Address

5267 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS	Title	Sec
EN380A	Creative Nonfiction Writing: Flaneur: Actor/Witness	A

Education

B.A., Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1978

M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1984

Areas of Expertise

Creative nonfiction prose
Environmental literature
Nature writing
Environmental Humanities

Personal Information

Michael Burke has been at Colby since 1987, and has taught courses in Creative Nonfiction, Nature Writing, Environmental Literature, First-Year Writing, and in the Integrated Semester Program. He served as Director of the Colby in London Program in 2001 and as Director of the CBB Program in South Africa in 2005. He has published nonfiction in such forums as Outside, Yankee, Islands, The New York Times, Down East, The Boston Globe, and New England Monthly. His book The Same River Twice, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2006.

Publications

BOOKS

The Same River Twice: A Boatman’s Journey Home. University of Arizona Press.2006 ANTHOLOGIES

ï¿½Rangeley, Maine.ï¿½ Yankee Magazineï¿½s Great Weekend Getaways in New England, Globe Pequot, 1998: Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

ï¿½The Tallest Lady in the World.ï¿½ Those Eccentric Yankees, editor John Lovell. Yankee Books. 1991: Camden, Maine.

PERIODICALS (in chronological order)

“Highland Fling”, article, The Cape Times (South Africa), August 14, 2005

“Migrations”, essay, for student publication, Sandy River Review, Fall 2004

Book Review, ISLE, volume 12.1 (Winter 2005), of “The Wild God of the World”, editor Albert Gelpi

Essay, “On the part-time Track,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19 2004.

“Kimber Lives on the Wild and Domestic Side,” Book Review, The Colby Echo, February 27, 2003.

“A Sucker for Sawyer Prints”, feature article on Charles Sawyer prints, Down East, October 2002.

“Twelve Thousand Years”, Book Review, Down East, of Twelve Thousand Years (the history of natives in Maine), June 2002.

“WOOT’s Up in Wales?”, sidebar, Colby Magazine, on international outdoor orientation program, Winter 2002.

“This Unique Place”, Book Review, Down East, on John Cole’s collection of essays, In Maine. November 2001.

“Sugaring ï¿½ Big Time”, Down East, March 2001.

Excerpt from Me and Sid: A Journey by Rivers, Organization and Environment, appeared January 2001, Volume 13, Number 4.

ï¿½About This Place,ï¿½ Colby Magazine, Summer 2000.

ï¿½Mount Deserted.ï¿½ Yankee Magazine. Nonfiction feature. January 1996.

ï¿½The Wild River.ï¿½ Country Home. Travel column, on Maine outdoor sports. June 1995.

____. Independent Business/95. Brief column, on fiddlehead fern cannery. May 1995.

ï¿½Sentimental Journey.ï¿½ Country Home. Travel essay, on windjamming off Maine coast, April 1995.

ï¿½Bethel, Maine.ï¿½ Country Home, February 1995, nonfiction feature, on Bethel, Maine.

ï¿½The Way the Galaxie Ends.ï¿½ Beyond Memos. Faculty publication of the University of Maine at Farmington. Short story. Spring, 1994.

ï¿½Maple Season.ï¿½ Northern New England Review, #17, essay. Spring 1992.

ï¿½A Place Where the Clocks Run Slow.ï¿½ Yankee Magazine. Nonfiction feature (cover story). May 1992.

ï¿½Connecting the Dots on the Maine Island Trail.ï¿½ Yankee Magazine, Nonfiction feature. October 1991.

Review of Billy Watsonï¿½s Croker Sack, by Franklin Burroughs. Maine Sunday Telegram. Book review. April 28, 1991.

ï¿½A Stroll Along the Allagash.ï¿½ Down East. Nonfiction feature. March 1991.

ï¿½Back of Beyond.ï¿½ New England Monthly. Nonfiction feature. May 1990.

ï¿½Book Collection Reveals Personal Past.ï¿½ Maine Sunday Telegram. Essay. April 8, 1990.

ï¿½100 Hikes in Maine.ï¿½ Down East. Book review. April 1990.

ï¿½Happy, Watery Trails to You.ï¿½ Islands. Nonfiction feature, April 1990.

ï¿½A Wild and Spectacular Journey by River through British Columbia.ï¿½ Boston Globe. Travel essay. October 15, 1989.

ï¿½Island Hopping off Maine.ï¿½ Outside Magazine. Nonfiction feature. September 1989.

ï¿½The Outer Limits.ï¿½ New England Monthly. Nonfiction feature. July 1989.

ï¿½The Tallest Lady in the World.ï¿½ Yankee Magazine. Nonfiction feature. November 1988.

ï¿½The Lost Trains of the Allagash.ï¿½ New England Monthly. Nonfiction feature. May 1988.

ï¿½The Moose Patrol.ï¿½ New England Monthly. Nonfiction feature. October 1987.

ï¿½The Masters of White Water.ï¿½ New England Monthly. Nonfiction feature. May 1987.

ï¿½A Hill of Wooded Wilderness Just Beyond the Backyard.ï¿½ The New York Times. Essay. March 22, 1987.

ï¿½A Reawakening on Indian Creek.ï¿½ Hampshire Life. Essay. March 20, 1987.

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