As we continue through April and national poetry month, I can happily report that I got the chance to do a reading and impromptu craft talk at my new library this weekend. We were holding an author’s fair (planned out before my arrival on the job last month) and a reading slot opened up. I…
Author: David J. Bauman
Poet, librarian, birder.
Author of Angels & Adultery (2018), Co-author of Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems (2021), both from Seven Kitchens Press, 2018.
First chapbook: Moons, Roads, and Rivers (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Happy Poetry Month from the Monkey
My son Micah had a poem published recently in Anti-Heroin Chic. I am super proud of him, of course. Check it out!
Blood Orange Review
My dad turns 90 years old tomorrow and we are planning a surprise party, well, we’re going for mild surprise. Nobody will be jumping out from behind furniture and shouting “SURPRISE!” We don’t want it to be his last birthday. He and I haven’t always gotten along. When I was 16 I ran away from…
Poem in Valparaiso Poetry Review
We didn’t get out at all this Christmas or New Year’s because I tested positive for Covid, so this poem below, which I wrote reflecting on the winter of 2020 to 21, was actually just as fitting for January of 2023. During the lockdowns I had the joy of writing with an online workshop of…
Reading with Poetry Square
I’m honored to have been invited by Diane Funston, Poet-in-residence at Yubba Sutter Arts and Culture, to read with Cheryl Latif and Julian Mathews in Poetry Square at 7 PM PT (10 PM EST). Please join us, either live or after the event on YouTube here:
October Reading
Reading with the River Poets Time: Thursday, October 7th at 7:30 PM Place: Community Room of the Bloomsburg Public Library, 225 Market Street in Bloomsburg, PA The River Poets of central Pennsylvania are hosting my son Micah James Bauman and I at the Bloomsburg Public Library for a reading from our poetry chapbook collaboration, Mapping…
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