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Dr. Cecily Gordon Parks

  • Associate Professor - English
Portrait of Dr. Cecily Gordon Parks

Biography and education

Dr. Cecily Parks is the author of three poetry collections: The Seeds (Alice James Books, 2025), O'Nights (Alice James Books, 2015), and Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008). The recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, she is the guest editor of Best New Poets 2025 and editor of the anthology The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2016) . Her poems appear in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Nation, The New Republic, and several editions of The Best American Poetry. At Texas State, she teaches a range of courses in poetry and poetry writing.

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Parks, Cecily Gordon (Principal). College of Liberal Arts Faculty Seed Grant Funding, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: December 2024 - March 2026). Grant.
  • Parks, C. G. (2025). The Seeds. New Gloucester, ME: Alice James Books. Retrieved from https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/the-seeds?srsltid=AfmBOop7AL3A7Kg-IGGQG2hYAUdyCOxqEf2ow5-74bnEU0gHzktq5C3O
  • Parks, C. (2016). The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses. New York, NY, United States: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets. Retrieved from https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534213/the-echoing-green-by-edited-by-cecily-parks/
  • Parks, C. (2015). O’Nights. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books. Retrieved from https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/onights?srsltid=AfmBOor3Ew1_JcfwgHWzQt32R-uu2HWP_kQMyBmDZp1_J1mof2FI6NR6
  • Parks, C. (2014). The Secret Swamps of Susan Howe in “Secret History of the Dividing Line,” “Thorow,” and “Personal Narrative.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and Environment, 21(Spring 2014), 353–373. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/26430331
  • Parks, C. (2013). The Swamps of Emily Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Journal, 22(Spring 2013), 29-Jan. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/504914/pdf
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Professor of the Year 2019-2020, Sigma Tau Delta. April 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity, Texas State University. 2016 - 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Professor of the Year 2016-2017, Sigma Tau Delta, Texas State University. 2016 - 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Pushcart Prize, The Pushcart Prize. May 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Best American Poetry 2022, The Best American Poetry Series. September 2022
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  1. University Mentor

    Mentorship Committee

  2. Editor

    ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

  3. Member

    Graduate Studies

  4. Member

    English Department Endowment

  5. Member

    Visiting Creative Writers Committee

  6. Board Member

    Columbia Alumni Association

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