David Starkey served as Santa Barbara's 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, Co-editor of The California Review of Books, and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty-five years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses—most recently Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song and What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency—and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. His textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's), is in its fourth edition.

Other poems by David Starkey in Verse Daily:
January 27, 2021:   "Auld Lang Syne" "Few will miss the Old Year..."
October 5, 2013:   "Circus Maximus" "Nothing now but grass..."

Books by David Starkey:

Other poems on the web by David Starkey:
"Between the First and Second Dose"
"Inauguration Day"
"The Sinking of the MV Sewol"
"Tomorrow’s Suicides"
"Song"
Six poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems

David Starkey's Website.