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David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU).
His numerous collections of poetry include The Ha-Ha (2003), short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems (2007), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Florida Book Award and the...
Professor of English. Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580. dkirby@fsu.edu. Phone 850 877 7411. Fax 850 644 0811. NEWS. 2020 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Reading. Press Release: FSU English Department honors renowned poet’s 50 years of teaching.
Creative writing, poetry, 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, non-fiction. DAVID KIRBY, is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.
even though they will sleep in my yard tonight. I hate them for their ingratitude, I who have kept countless promises, as dead now as Shakespeare’s children. “You bastards,” I scream, “you have to love me—I gave you life!”. David Kirby, “Broken Promises” from Big-Leg Music (Washington, DC: Orchises Press, 1995). Copyright ...
May 26, 2024 · David Kirby’s latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them. David teaches at Florida State University and is currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.
David Kirby. The two musicians pour forth their souls abroad. in such an ecstasy as to charm the audience. like none I’ve ever seen before, and when. they finish, they rise and hug each other, and then the tabla player bends down. and touches the feet of the santoor player in an obvious gesture.
