Poet David Baker, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. arch 22 in Hurst Lounge in Dunker Hall.
The reading, which is free and open to the public, is part of The Writing Program Reading Series.
Baker is the author of eight books of poetry: “Midwest Eclogue” (2005), “Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems” (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 also is the author of two books of criticism: “Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry” (2000) and “Meter in English: A Critical Engagement” (1996).
Baker 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 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 master of fine arts program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., and serves as poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.
For more information, call 935-7130.