David Groff's most recent book, Live in Suspense, was published by Trio House Press. His previous book Clay, also from Trio House, was chosen by Michael Waters for the Louise Bogan Award. His first collection, Theory of Devolution, was selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series. He is the coeditor of Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS (Alyson) and Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners (University of Wisconsin Press). An independent book editor, he teaches poetry and publishing in the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York.

Books by David Groff:

Other poems on the web by David Groff:
Two poems
"Fire Island Song"
"Scavenger"
"You're in My Light"
"Her Grave"

David Groff's Website.

David Groff on Twitter.

About Live in Suspense:

"Live in Suspense is the work of a master craftsperson and a lesson in how to create a cohesive yet textured collection. Here David Groff delivers us poems that are thrillingly diverse in tone and form yet tightly connected in their concerns: mortality, loss, legacy. Groff's talent for finding the just-right metaphor is perhaps only bested by his ability to stick a poem's landing. Live in Suspense is a remarkably smart, moving, and memorable book. Groff's best yet."
—Maggie Smith

"As David Groff reminds us, the past has a kind of physics that merges the far with the near. From the consciousness of the infant on the changing table, to the memory of friends and lovers and communities destroyed by AIDS, to the tenderness of a lover before leave-taking in the present—Groff's poems take the things of experience and bring them into exquisite relief. 'There's light and there's lack,' one of Groff's speakers says, underscoring the vigilant and luminous accounting in poem after poem in Live in Suspense. "
—Rick Barot

"David Groff's Live in Suspense is a book of retrospection and asks readers to consider the interstices that is a life lived between losses. In these thoughtful, formally adroit and forthright poems, Groff reminds us that the past is not really the past, but lives on around and inside of us—in memory, in our bodies, and in the hard-won changes exacted on the living. The breaking of patrimony, the death of a father, AIDS, the pleasures and uncertainties of queer life, faith and faithlessness—all are bound up in these wide-ranging, smart, elegiac and memorable poems. "
—Mark Wunderlich