David Kirby
David Kirby teaches English at Florida State University. His collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Kirby is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which the Times Literary Supplement called “a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense.” His latest poetry collection is More Than This.
Reading List
Chasing Jim Taylor
When I ask the man with the streetside cooker for the secret of his fried fish, he says, I use the same flour and oil and salt as everyone else, but they can’t do with it what I do, and as I drive past a group of kids playing ball in a dusty lot, I […]