The Kenyon Review

DAVID BAKER Poetry Editor


	David Baker is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review and lives in Granville, Ohio. He was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, grew up in Missouri, and received his B.S.E. and M.A. degrees in English from Central Missouri State University. After teaching high school English from 1977-79, he took his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah in 1983. Baker has taught at Kenyon College, the Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan, and currently holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is Professor of English. He also teaches regularly in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. Among Baker’s eleven books are Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (essays, edited with Ann Townsend, forthcoming in 2007 from Graywolf Press), Midwest Eclogue (poems, 2005, W. W. Norton), Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems (2005, Arc Publications, UK), Changeable Thunder (poems, 2001, University of Arkansas Press), and Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (criticism, 2000, Arkansas). For his work Baker has been awarded fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Ohio Arts Council, Society of Midland Authors, and others.
	SELECTED BOOKS BY DAVID BAKER
		MIDWEST ECLOGUE New York : W. W. Norton, 2005. 96 p. "Midwest Eclogue is theft quality. Read it, you will buy it. Poets will want to have written it. In style and subject, there is permanent goodness in this book." --Wyatt Prunty, The Weekly Standard
		TREATISE ON TOUCH UK : Arc Publications, 2005. 146 p. “These beautifully-shaped poems are fuelled by a deep human desire to rescue the transient moment and memorialize feeling . . .” --Edward Hirsch
		CHANGEABLE THUNDER Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001. 97 p. "The level of attentiveness in these poems, which build on the American vernacular and a developing sense of American “identity,” is inspired and unflinching." --Carol Muske Dukes, Los Angeles Times.
		HERESY AND THE IDEAL Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 291 p. A powerful collection of essays and essay-reviews which David Baker wrote and published throughout the 1990s. He thoroughly discusses the work of more than fifty contemporary poets, including T. R. Hummer, Miller Williams, Albert Goldbarth, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, David Wojahn, Alice Fulton, Louise Glück, and Charles Wright.

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