David Stephenson (poet)

David Stephenson is an American poet.

He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from the University of Wisconsin with degrees in engineering.^[1]

His work has appeared in California Quarterly, Edge City Review, The Formalist,^[2] Hellas,^[3] The Lyric, Pivot,^[4] and Slant.^[5]

He lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Awards

• Margaret Haley Carpenter Prize
• Howard Nemerov Award three-time finalist
• 2007 Richard Wilbur Award

Works

• "Bunker", Able Muse

• Rhythm and Blues University of Evansville Press, January 1, 2008, ISBN 978-0-930982-65-2

Reviews

This is a book you rush through as if on oiled tracks—and before you know it the ride is over. The joy of the trip is partly due to the straightforwardness of the poems— recognizable situations, narrative and idea easily expressed, lack of complicated rhetorical devices^[6]

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