David Baker (poet)

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 University of Michigan. 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] where he serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.^[6][7][8]

Awards

• 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellow ^[9]
• 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)
• Midwest Eclogue. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2007. ISBN 9780393329612. 
• 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

• "Levis Here and There", Blackbird, Fall 2006

• 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

1. ^ http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/english/baker_david.html
2. ^ http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/david_baker
3. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/david_baker/search?contributorName=david%20baker
4. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/printissue.php/prmIID/187
5. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/david_baker_1
6. ^ http://www.kenyonreview.org/about-baker.php
7. ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/785
8. ^ http://www.poetry.gatech.edu/poetbios.html
9. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/648-david-baker

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