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David Spicer

A former medical journal proofreader, David Spicer was born and raised in South Dakota, then in New Jersey and Tennessee. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Elon University and an M.A.T. from University of Memphis. He has had poems in The American Poetry Review, The Bookends Review, Chiron Review, Gargoyle, Moria, North Dakota Quarterly, Oyster River Pages, The Phoenix, Ploughshares, Prime Number, Reed Magazine, Santa Clara Review, Synaeresis, Tipton Poetry Review, among others, and in the anthologies Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature (Ally Press, 1978), Homewords: A Book of Tennessee Writers (University of Tennessee Press, 1986), Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers (University of Tennessee Press, 1996), Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing From Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), A Galaxy of Starfish: An Anthology of Modern Surrealism (Salo Press, 2016), and Sheltering in Place (Staring Problem Press, 2020). He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart twice, and is the author of two full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story (St. Luke's Press, 1987) and Waiting for the Needle Rain (Hekate Publishing, 2020), and six chapbooks, the latest of which is Tribe of Two (Seven CirclePress, 2019). His collection of sestinas is forthcoming in 2021 from FutureCycle Press. Living in Memphis, he is also the former editor of Raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books.

Books By David Spicer

Confessional

David Spicer
ISBN: 9789390202317
Poetry

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