David Baker

David Baker is author of fourteen books of poetry, including "Transit" (W.W. Norton, forthcoming January 2026), "Whale Fall" (W. W. Norton, 2022), "Swift: New and Selected Poems" (W. W. Norton, 2019), "Scavenger Loop" (Norton, 2015), "Never-Ending Birds" (Norton, 2009), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011, and "Midwest Eclogue" (Norton, 2005). His six books of prose include "Seek After: Essays on Modern Lyric Poets" (SFA University Press, 2018), "Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems" (Michigan, 2014) and, with Ann Townsend, "Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry" (Graywolf, 2007). With Michael Collier, he edited "Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly (Norton, 2025). Among Baker's awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors. He is Emeritus Professor of English at Denison University, and lives in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York. Until his retirement, he served as Poetry Editor of "The Kenyon Review" for many years.