His individual poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antaeus, The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Raritan, The Southern Review, Tin House, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review. His poetry has been anthologized in The Longman Anthology of Poetry, The Making of a Sonnet, The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms, and most recently in the new landmark anthology A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025.
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David Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. He was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, and now lives in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York. He received his B.S.E. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Central Missouri and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, where he also served from 1980-83 as Editor and Poetry Editor of Quarterly West. In 1984 Baker began teaching at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English. He has also served frequently on the faculty of writing programs and writers’ workshops around the country and abroad, from the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College, to the Wonder Workshops at Civitella Ranieri in Italy. For many years he was Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he also curated the long-running annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine.
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Among his awards are prizes and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Mellon Foundation, Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Foundation, Utah Arts Council, Society of Midland Authors, and Ohioana Library Association. In addition to his work at Denison University, Baker has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, the Ohio State University, Jefferson City Senior High School, as well as at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Frost Place, Chautauqua Institute, Poetry by the Sea, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Catskills Poetry Workshop, and The Kenyon Review Writers Workshops in Italy and Ohio.
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