David Baker

David Baker is a poet, critic, and educator. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University.

David Baker

David Baker is a poet, critic, and educator. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University.

Awards

Shortlisted — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2011

Winner — Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, 2011

Books by David Baker

  • Transit: Poems

    David Baker

    E Book

    A beloved nature poet reflects on environmental change, political transformation, and the ineluctable fact of aging.
  • Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

    Stanley Plumly, David Baker, Michael Collier

    Hardback, 2025

    The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers
  • Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly

    Stanley Plumly, David Baker, Michael Collier

    E Book

    The definitive collection of one of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers