About David Kirby and Rattle

Today's poem is "Mass Shootings: A Biography"

from Rattle

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:
September 21, 2021: "Galileo" "Did you know that Galileo was a Mason? Okay, he wasn't..."
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:
Three poems
"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.
About Rattle:

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Other poems by Rattle in Verse Daily:
December 12, 2021: "Another Pandemic Dream" by Alexis Rotella
December 7, 2021: "If You've Met One Autistic Person, You've Met One Autistic Person" by Tom C. Hunley
September 17, 2021: "This Is What Life Does" by Marjorie Saiser
September 16, 2021: "Fat Girl Trilonnet" by Stephanie Rogers
January 24, 2021: "Homestead" by Alice Pettway
January 23, 2020: "Lockdown Puzzle: Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by A. E. Stallings
January 22, 2020: "Because Wolves Are A Protected Species, This One Is Merely Interrogated" by Ron Koertge
October 28, 2020: "Note to Self" by David Mason
October 27, 2020: "Poetry Workshop" by Vivian Shipley
October 26, 2020: "My Love, Though the Smart Speaker Is Spying on Us" by Jeffrey Morgan
July 29, 2020: "Asterisks" by Martin Vest
July 28, 2020: "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." by Tom C. Hunley
July 27, 2020: "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" by Lynne Knight
May 25, 2020: "Triolets on a Dune Shack" by Carolyne Wright
May 23, 2020: "The Cow I Didn't Eat" by Lollie Butler
May 22, 2020: "Chernobyl" by George Bilgere
November 25, 2019: "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country..." by Chaun Ballard
October 24, 2019: "What My Children Remember" by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
October 23, 2019: "Chasing Home" by Ifeoluwa Ayandele
October 22, 2019: "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019: "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019: "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019: "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017: "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017: "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016: "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
November 29, 2016: "Redress" by Wendy Videlock
April 5, 2016: "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
April 3, 2016: "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
January 17, 2016: "'It's Been a Week" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 16, 2015: "Lorazepam" by Sam Sax
August 10, 2014: "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker
August 9, 2014: "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013: "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
November 5, 2013: "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift
November 4, 2013: "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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