David Kirby
David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant and has appeared in Best American Poetry four times. Known for his wit and Whitmanesque energy, Kirby is a music aficionado, poetry critic and popular culture encyclopedia. His books include The Ha-Ha (LSU, 2003), The Temple Gate Called Beautiful (Alice James, 2008) and Talking about Movies with Jesus (LSU, 2011). The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his new book is Get Up, Please (LSU, 2016).
Reading List
Look, Slavs
Remember when you were a little kid and somebody said “Slav” and you thought they said “slob” and wondered if the two words were the same and then realized they weren’t but thought they might be connected in some way …
The Bad Poetry Reading
It’s not your fault that you didn’t like it. It’s the poems’ fault. And the poet’s. The poems were bad, and he shouldn’t have read them. Here’s why: every time you give a talk or teach a class or play …
I Think Satan Done It
Jerry Lee Lewis is the undead, only cooler – not even the undead just sit there staring and suddenly churn barrelhouse piano as though the devil himself has his forked tail up their butt, then dash through “Big Legged Woman” …