David Baker Affiliation: Faculty Title: Professor Office: Barney-Davis 207 Email: baker@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6419

David Baker is Professor of English and holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing.  He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Midwest Eclogue (2005, W. W. Norton).  His three critical books are Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007, with Ann Townsend), Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (2000) and Meter in English: A Critical Engagement (1996).  Dr. Baker's poems and essays have appeared widely in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, DoubleTake, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, The Yale Review, and more than a hundred others.  For his work he has received fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Society of Midland Authors.

At Denison Dr. Baker teaches classes in creative writing, poetry writing, American and modern literature, poetic theory, and others.  He has taught previously at Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, and the Ohio State University, and occasionally serves on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.  Dr. Baker also is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.  In 2001 and 2006 he served on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.