David Baker (poet)
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David Baker (born December 27, 1954; Bangor, Maine) is an American poet.
Life
He was raised in Missouri. He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983. He taught at Kenyon College. He teaches at Denison University,[1] and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
His work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation,[2] The New Republic, The New Yorker,[3] The Paris Review,[4] Poetry, The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville, Ohio,[5] and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.[6][7][8]
Awards
- 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
- 2001 Guggenheim Fellow [9]
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2005, 1985
- Ohio Arts Council
- Poetry Society of America Lyric Prize
- Society of Midland Authors
- Pushcart Foundation.
Works
- Scavenger Loop (W. W. Norton, 2015)
- Never-Ending Birds (W. W. Norton, 2009)
- Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2007)
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- 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
- "Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems" (University of Michigan, 2014)
- "Talk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets" (University of Arkansas, 2012)
- '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).
References
- ↑ http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/english/baker_david.html
- ↑ http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/david_baker
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/david_baker/search?contributorName=david%20baker
- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/printissue.php/prmIID/187
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/david_baker_1
- ↑ http://www.kenyonreview.org/about-baker.php
- ↑ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/785
- ↑ http://www.poetry.gatech.edu/poetbios.html
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/648-david-baker
