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 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)
• Midwest Eclogue. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-32961-2. 
• 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).

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