David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems (Southern Messenger Poets, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Award. His latest books are a poetry collection, The Winter Dance Party, Poems 1983-2023 (LSU Press, 2024) and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them (Flip Learning, 2020). Kirby is also the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Bloomsbury Academic, 2009), which the Times Literary Supplement described as “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense.” Entertainment Weekly has called Kirby’s poetry one of “5 Reasons to Live.” In 2016, Kirby received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Florida Humanities, which called him “a literary treasure of our state.” He is currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.
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