David Baker (poet)
David Baker is an American poet. He is Emeritus Professor of English at Denison University and served for more than 25 years as poetry editor of the ''Kenyon Review.''
Life
David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine in 1954, and was raised in Missouri. He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983.He has taught widely, including at Jefferson City Senior High School, Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and since 1984 at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he held the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing and is Emeritus Professor of English. He has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has also offered writing workshops and readings around the country and abroad, including in Italy, Romania, England, Spain, and elsewhere.
His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville, Ohio, and served for many years as poetry editor of the Kenyon Review.
Awards
- 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
- 2001 Guggenheim Fellow
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2005 & 1985
- Ohio Arts Council
- Poetry Society of America Lyric Prize
- Society of Midland Authors
- Pushcart Foundation
Poetry volumes
Transit Whale Fall Swift: New and Selected Poems Scavenger Loop Never-Ending Birds Omul Alchimic trans. by Chris Tanasescu Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems Midwest Eclogue Changeable Thunder The Truth about Small Towns After the Reunion Sweet Home, Saturday Night- ''Haunts''
Prose volumes
Seek After: On Seven Modern Lyric Poets Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems Talk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry- ''Meter in English: A Critical Engagement''