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| Born | December 27, 1954 Bangor, Maine, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
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| Alma mater | University of Central Missouri University of Utah |
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| Institutions | University of Michigan Denison University |
David Baker (born December 27,1954) 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.
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 (MO) 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 , [1] The New Republic , The New York Times , The New Yorker , [2] The Paris Review , [3] Poetry,and The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville,Ohio, [4] and served for many years as poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. [5] [6] [7]
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