David Graham is an American writer married to the artist

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. He has published six collections of poetry, as well as poetry and short stories in numerous literary magazines. Born and raised in

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, he has taught English at Ripon College in

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since 1987, where he became full professor in 2001. In 1996 he served as poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.

Education

*M. F. A. in English,

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

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, 1980 *B.A.

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, 1975. Summa cum laude. Major: English Literature and Creative Writing

Books

*''The Honey of Earth.'' Terrapin Books, 2019. *''Local News: Poetry About Small Towns. (''Poetry anthology) Ed. David Graham & Tom Montag. MWPH Books, 2019. *''David Graham: Greatest Hits 1975-2000'' Pudding House Publications, 2001 *''Stutter Monk'' Flume Press, 2000 *''Doggedness'' Devil's Millhopper Press, c. 1989 but appeared 1991 *''Second Wind'' Texas Tech University Press, 1990. *''Magic Shows'' Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1986 *''Common Waters'' Flume Press, 1986 *''After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography'' (Co-edited with Kate Sontag) Graywolf Press, 2001

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20100527133635/http://www.ripon.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/graham_d.html

External links

Home page
https://www.davidgrahampoet.com *Links to online essays by Graham https://www.davidgrahampoet.com/essays.html

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