George Eklund has published widely in North American journals, including The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, Epoch, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Ohio Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, and Willow Springs, among others.
Most recently his poems have appeared in The Lindenwood Review, Poetry Fix, Red Booth Review, and Rio Grande Review, as well as Tinge, Toad, 6x6, Conduit, and Adelaide.
Eklund’s full length volumes include The Island Blade (ABZ Press 2011) and Each Breath I Cannot Hold (Wind Publications 2011) His name book, Toward a Credo was published by Kelsay Books in March, 2025.
Finishing Line Press published his chapbook, Wanting To Be an Element, in 2012, and also his recent collection, Altar, in September 2019.
His translations from the Spanish have appeared in The Rio Grande Review, In Translation/Third Rail, Merida Review and Circulo de Poesia. His translations of poems by Mario Bojórquez have recently appeared in Tupelo Literary Review.
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.
Toward a Credo, by George Eklund
George Eklund has published widely in North American journals, including The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, Epoch, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Ohio Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, and Willow Springs, among others.
Most recently his poems have appeared in The Lindenwood Review, Poetry Fix, Red Booth Review, and Rio Grande Review, as well as Tinge, Toad, 6x6, Conduit, and Adelaide.
Eklund’s full length volumes include The Island Blade (ABZ Press 2011) and Each Breath I Cannot Hold (Wind Publications 2011) His name book, Toward a Credo was published by Kelsay Books in March, 2025.
Finishing Line Press published his chapbook, Wanting To Be an Element, in 2012, and also his recent collection, Altar, in September 2019.
His translations from the Spanish have appeared in The Rio Grande Review, In Translation/Third Rail, Merida Review and Circulo de Poesia. His translations of poems by Mario Bojórquez have recently appeared in Tupelo Literary Review.
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.