David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for both the National Book Award and Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the author of Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll, which the Times Literary Supplement of London called "a hymn of praise to the emancipatory power of nonsense" and was named one of Booklist's Top 10 Black History Non-Fiction Books of 2010. His latest books are a poetry collection, Help Me, Information, and a textbook modestly entitled The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them.

Other poems by David Kirby in Verse Daily:
April 28, 2021:   "Van Gogh" "I say, 'How was your summer?' and you say..."
April 23, 2014:   "I'm Kind of a Whore, But She's, Like, Way a Whore" "this is the kind of thing that makes me happy...."

Books by David Kirby:

Other poems on the web by David Kirby:
"A Few Old Things"
Two poems
Three poems
Eigth poems
Two poems
"More Than This"
Two poems
Three poems
"Taking It Home to Jerome"
Two poems
Two poems

David Kirby's Website.

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