Dave Morrison (poet)
David R. Morrison is an American writer and poet.
Personal life
Morrison was born in 1959 in the Boston suburb of Reading, Massachusetts. As a young man he played guitar and sang in several rock & roll bands in Boston and New York.Career
After attending the New School University in New York city he began to publish short stories and poetry in several literary magazines. Morrison has been included in the anthologies Tribute to Orpheus, Riffing on Strings, What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years?, Agreeable Friends, and his work has been published in Rattle, Opium, Wolf Moon Press, and other literary magazines. He has published two novels, as well as seven poetry collections. Morrison was the host of the Have Poems Will Travel radio show originating from WRFR-FM in Rockland, Maine.In 2011 Morrison released Clubland – Second Edition, an enlarged collection of poems about rock & roll bars, written in verse. Two of these poems were read on Writer's Almanac.