Poet David Baker to read for The Writing Program Reading Series March 22

Poet David Baker, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, for The Writing Program Reading Series.

The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northeast corner of Brookings Quadrangle. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Baker is the author of eight books of poetry, including Midwest Eclogue (2005), Treatise on Touch (2005), Changeable Thunder (2001), The Truth about Small Towns (1998), After the Reunion (1994) Sweet Home, Saturday Night (1991), Haunts (1985) and Laws of the Land (1981). He is also the author of two books of criticism, Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (2000) and Meter in English: A Critical Engagement (1996).

Bakers has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Poetry Society of America, the Society of Midland Authors, and the Pushcart Foundation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry and many others.

Raised in central Missouri, Baker currently resides in Granville, Ohio, and teaches at Denison University, where he holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing. He also teaches in the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, and serves as poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.