David Yezzi previously published a book of poems, Birds of the Air, with Carnegie Mellon. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, he is chair of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and editor of The Hopkins Review.

Other poems by David Yezzi in Verse Daily:
June 26, 2013:   "Crane" "Paper creased is..."
April 21, 2009:   "Free Period" "Outside study hall..."

Books by David Yezzi:

Other poems on the web by David Yezzi:
Eleven poems
"Living Room"
"Café Future"
Two poems
"Weeds"
"Low Ceiling"
"Orts"
"Schnauzer"
Two poems

David Yezzi's Website.

David Yezzi According to Wikipedia.

David Yezzi on Twitter.

About Black Sea:

"I have loved David Yezzi’s work for years, both the dramatic subtlety of his narrative poems and the cold fire of his lyrics. Black Sea builds on, and refines, both impulses. Everywhere it evinces the kind of energy that can happen when an ancient art is enlivened by a thoroughly modern mind."
—Rosanna Warren

"David Yezzi has a good ear for crass vernacular, and a good eye for danger lurking in the commonplace. At its best, his snappy metrical verse castigates pretension. But he’s also an artist of tart melancholia and tenderness. His ‘Keats in Louisville’ achieves real dignity in its understatement."
—Christian Wiman