George Eklund’s poems are published widely in North American journals, including The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, Epoch, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, The North American Review, and Willow Springs, among others. Most recently, his poems have appeared in Reedy Branch Review, Route 7, Rising Phoenix Review, The Lindenwood Review, Poetry Fix, Red Booth Review, and Rio Grande Review, as well as The Heartland Review, Descant, Redactions, and Adelaide.
Eklund’s full-length volumes include The Island Blade (ABZ Press, 2011) and Each Breath I Cannot Hold (Wind Publications, 2011). Finishing Line Press published his chapbook Wanting to Be an Element in 2012, as well as his recent collection, Altar, in September 2019.
His translations from Spanish have appeared in The Rio Grande Review, In Translation/Third Rail, Merida Review, Circulo de Poesia, and in the anthology Sólo una vez aquí en la tierra: Cincuenta y dos poetas del mundo (Only Once Here on Earth: 52 World Poets). His translations of poems by Mario Bojórquez recently appeared in Tupelo Literary Review.
Eklund has been recognized as an Al Smith Fellow by the Kentucky Arts Council. In 2014, he was invited to represent the U.S. at the Encuentro Internacional de Poesia in Mexico City where he was a featured reader.
George Eklund is Emeritus Professor at Morehead State University. He shares studio space with the painter and poet Laura Eklund on thirty acres of wooded hills in eastern Kentucky.
Paperback: 84 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 13, 2025)