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Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads David Baker's poem "After Rain."
David Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. Since 1984 Baker has taught at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is currently a Professor of English and holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing. Baker also serves frequently on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College and is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review. David Baker is the author or editor of eighteen books, including twelve books of poetry, most recently Swift: New and Selected Poems (2019, W. W. Norton), Scavenger Loop (2015, W. W. Norton) and Never-Ending Birds (2009, W. W. Norton), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011, and six books of prose, most recently Seek After: On Seven Modern Lyric Poets (2018, SFASU).
Source: David Baker Website