David Kirby is the recipient of several Pushcart Prizes, the Guy Owen Prize, the Kay Deeter Award, and several fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors. He has published numerous collections of poetry, as well as criticism, essays, and children's literature, and has been widely anthologized. Matthew Dickman said of Kirby's most recent book, Talking About Movies with Jesus, that "Reading David Kirby's poetry is like being at a really great party where people are smart and funny
and sad and somehow made out of both real life and some Holy Spirit from
outer space." Kirby teaches at Florida State University and lives in Tallahassee, FL, with his wife, poet Barbara Hamby.Listen as he reads some of his recent work. [download]