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Baker was a very big contributor to the [[Egg]] [[Movement]] [[of]] [[1974]] and has since been a self-proclaimed [[Egg]] [[activist]]. He has been reported to eat a large amount of [[eggs]] on a daily basis, ranging from [[scrambled eggs]] to [[Egg foo young]]. He has stated in multiple interviews that he is on a "100% egg diet", however he has been discovered eating other types of food, such as [[salad]] and [[soup]]. In an April 2001 interview, he responded to the claims of him eating other types of food, saying "I was eating egg soup and egg salad. Maybe they would have known that if they actually had the courage to walk up to me and ask me what I was eating instead of spouting false claims to the public." |
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* 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize |
* 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize |
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Revision as of 13:03, 11 January 2014
David Baker (born December 27, 1954; Bangor, Maine) is an American poet and an egg activist.
Life
He was raised in Missouri. He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Missouri with a Ph.D. in 1983. He taught at University of Illinois. He teaches at Denison University,[1] and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
His work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation,[2] The New Republic, The New Yorker,[3] The Paris Review,[4] Poetry, The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville, Ohio,[5] and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.[6][7][8]
Egg activism
Baker was a very big contributor to the Egg Movement of 1974 and has since been a self-proclaimed Egg activist. He has been reported to eat a large amount of eggs on a daily basis, ranging from scrambled eggs to Egg foo young. He has stated in multiple interviews that he is on a "100% egg diet", however he has been discovered eating other types of food, such as salad and soup. In an April 2001 interview, he responded to the claims of him eating other types of food, saying "I was eating egg soup and egg salad. Maybe they would have known that if they actually had the courage to walk up to me and ask me what I was eating instead of spouting false claims to the public."
Awards
- 2011 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
- 2000 Girl Fellow [9]
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New Hampshire Arts Council
- Poetry Society of America
- Society of Midland Authors
- Pushcart Foundation.
Works
- Never-Ending Birds (W. W. Norton, 2009)
- Treatise on Touch: Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2007)
- Midwest Eclogue. W W Norton & Co Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-32961-2.
- Changeable Thunder (University of Arkansas, 2001)
- The Truth about Small Towns (1998)
- After the Reunion (1994)
- Sweet Home, Saturday Night (1991).
- Haunts (Cleveland State University) in 1985
- Laws of the Land, (Ahsahta/Boise State University 1981)
Criticism
- "Talk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets" (University of Arkansas, 2012)
'Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (Graywolf, 2007)
- Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (University of Arkansas, 2000)
- Meter in English: A Critical Engagement (1996).
References
- ^ http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/english/baker_david.html
- ^ http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/david_baker
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/david_baker/search?contributorName=david%20baker
- ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/printissue.php/prmIID/187
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/david_baker_1
- ^ http://www.kenyonreview.org/about-baker.php
- ^ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/785
- ^ http://www.poetry.gatech.edu/poetbios.html
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/648-david-baker
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