David Baker (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
He was raised in Missouri.He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
with a Ph.D. in 1983.
He taught at University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
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He teaches at Denison University
Denison University
Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...
, and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers is the oldest low-residency creative writing Master of Fine Arts program in the United States. Prior to the founding of this program, an MFA in creative writing was earned via standard residential graduate programs that required students to be in residence...
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His work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville, Ohio
Granville, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,167 people, 1,309 households, and 888 families residing in the village. The population density was 790.4 people per square mile . There were 1,384 housing units at an average density of 345.4 per square mile...
, where he serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.
Awards
- 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
- 2000 Guggenheim Fellow
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Ohio Arts Council
- Poetry Society of America
- Society of Midland Authors
- Pushcart Foundation.
Works
- "Never-ending Birds", The New Yorker, June 4, 2007
- "Neighbors in October", Poetry Foundation
- "Poet's Choice: 'Never-Ending Birds' by David Baker", The Washington Post, October 11, 2009
- "Never-ending Birds"; "The Truth about Small Towns", Superstition Review, spring 2009
- "Hungry", The Atlantic, August 2009
- Never-Ending Birds (W. W. Norton, 2009)
- Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2007)
- Changeable Thunder (University of Arkansas, 2001)
- The Truth about Small Towns (1998)
- After the Reunion (1994)
- Sweet Home, Saturday Night (1991).
- Haunts (Cleveland State University) in 1985
- Laws of the Land, (Ahsahta/Boise State University 1981)
Criticism
- Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (Graywolf, 2007)
- Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (University of Arkansas, 2000)
- Meter in English: A Critical Engagement (1996).