O Taste and See : Food Poems

Poems of Food by these fine authors: Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Louise Bogan, Frank O�Hara, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, James Wright,William Carlos Williams,Maggie Anderson, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Susan Azar Porterfield, Susan Jelus,Karen Rigby, Jimmy Santiago Baca,Robert Flanagan, Thom Tammaro,Terry Kirts, Edmund Conti, Gabriel Welsch, Barbara Crooker, David Lee Garrison, Ingrid Wendt, Lynn Powell, Lois Beebe Hayna, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Carolyn Forch�, Cathy Lentes, Ayelet Ammitay, Gail Bellamy, Kevin Prufer, Susan Terris, Susan McGowan, Sarah Kennedy, Stuart Lishan, Li-Young Lee, Wendy Bishop, Grey Held, Grace Butcher, Susan Grimm, Lynn Powell, Ann Stanford, Steve Wilson, Don Bogen, Robert Hass, Deanna Pickard, John Hershman, Kathrine Varnes, Julia Levine, Wendell Berry, Ann Townsend, Pattiann Rogers, Allen Braden, Imogene Bolls, Mark Doty, F. Richard Thomas, Jonathan Anderson, James Cummins, Kay Sloan, William Heyen, Myrna Stone, Charles Simic, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jim Heynan, David Hassler, Annie Finch, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Vivian Shipley, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Rebecca McClanahan, Gerald Stern, Michael Waters, Pamela Uschuk, John Logan, Diane Wakoski, Erica Jong, Natasha Saj�, Larry Smith, Judith Strasser, Joyce Sutphen, David Starkey, Betty Greenway, Karen Kovacik, Kathy Fagan, Paola Corso, Jared Carter, Bonnie Jacobson, Robert Brimm, Tara Miller, Ira Sadoff, Robert Fox, Jane Hirschfield, Billy Collins, Christopher Merrill, Terry Hermsen, Jeff Gundy, William Greenway, Nan Arbuckle, Collette Inez, Francis Smith, Frank Polite, Patti Capel Swartz, Cyril Dostal, Martha Silano, Colleen J. McElroy, Elton Glaser, Daniel Lusk, Willis Barnstone, Richard Hague, David Petreman, David Citino, Herbert Martin, Andrew Hudgins, Clarinda Harris, Maggie Jaffe, Susan Rich, Eugene Gloria, David Baker, Ralph Black, Cathryn Essinger

David Lee Garrison was born in Bremerton, Washington, and educated at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins Universities. After visiting appointments at Indiana University and the University of Kansas, he began teaching Spanish and Portuguese in 1979 at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), where he now chairs the Department of Modern Languages. He has taught creative writing workshops at Wright State and also at Antioch University, Sinclair Community College, and the University of Dayton. His work� poetry, criticism, fiction, reviews, and translations�has appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, Poem, and The Nation, as well as in various anthologies. He has published two chapbooks, Blue Oboe (Wyndham Hall Press) and Inside the Sound of Rain (Vincent Brothers), and three volumes of translation, most recently Certain Chance, by Spanish poet Pedro Salinas (Bucknell University Press, 2000). Learning to cook for himself as a young single man led to his special interest in food and food poems. He lives in Dayton, Ohio, with his wife, Suzanne Kelly-Garrison, an attorney and fiction writer.

Terry Hermsen lives, gardens and cooks in Delaware, Ohio, with his wife Leslie and their two adopted �children, Noel and Noah. For 25 years he has conducted poetry residencies in schools across Ohio, taking students into factories and prairies, zoos and museums. He has two chapbooks from Bottom Dog Press, Child Aloft in Ohio Theatre and 36 Spokes: The Bicycle Poems. In 2003 he finished his dissertation in Art Education, looking at how poetry and art can help students more passionately connect �with the world around them.

Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Louise Bogan, Frank O�Hara, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, James Wright,William Carlos Williams,Maggie Anderson, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Susan Azar Porterfield, Susan Jelus,Karen Rigby, Jimmy Santiago Baca,Robert Flanagan, Thom Tammaro,Terry Kirts, Edmund Conti, Gabriel Welsch, Barbara Crooker, David Lee Garrison, Ingrid Wendt, Lynn Powell, Lois Beebe Hayna, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Carolyn Forch�, Cathy Lentes, Ayelet Ammitay, Gail Bellamy, Kevin Prufer, Susan Terris, Susan McGowan, Sarah Kennedy, Stuart Lishan, Li-Young Lee, Wendy Bishop, Grey Held, Grace Butcher, Susan Grimm, Lynn Powell, Ann Stanford, Steve Wilson, Don Bogen, Robert Hass, Deanna Pickard, John Hershman, Kathrine Varnes, Julia Levine, Wendell Berry, Ann Townsend, Pattiann Rogers, Allen Braden, Imogene Bolls, Mark Doty, F. Richard Thomas, Jonathan Anderson, James Cummins, Kay Sloan, William Heyen, Myrna Stone, Charles Simic, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jim Heynan, David Hassler, Annie Finch, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Vivian Shipley, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Rebecca McClanahan, Gerald Stern, Michael Waters, Pamela Uschuk, John Logan, Diane Wakoski, Erica Jong, Natasha Saj�, Larry Smith, Judith Strasser, Joyce Sutphen, David Starkey, Betty Greenway, Karen Kovacik, Kathy Fagan, Paola Corso, Jared Carter, Bonnie Jacobson, Robert Brimm, Tara Miller, Ira Sadoff, Robert Fox, Jane Hirschfield, Billy Collins, Christopher Merrill, Terry Hermsen, Jeff Gundy, William Greenway, Nan Arbuckle, Collette Inez, Francis Smith, Frank Polite, Patti Capel Swartz, Cyril Dostal, Martha Silano, Colleen J. McElroy, Elton Glaser, Daniel Lusk, Willis Barnstone, Richard Hague, David Petreman, David Citino, Herbert Martin, Andrew Hudgins, Clarinda Harris, Maggie Jaffe, Susan Rich, Eugene Gloria, David Baker, Ralph Black, Cathryn Essinger