David J Bauman

My Books

Poems, Reviews & Essays

• “Alvira,” a collaboration with Micah James Bauman in the anthology Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania  from Penn State University Press, 2025.
• “Dawn Song” in the spring edition of Shenandoah, 2025. 
• “Pigeon Hawk” is now in West Trade Review‘s Online Exclusive edition and the anthology Ecobloomspaces: Poetry at the Intersection of Social Identity and Nature/Environment/Place from Iron Oak Editions LLC, a special anthology project from the editors of WTR.
• Three collaborative poems with Micah James Bauman: “Dark Skies,” “The Phlebotomist’s Mood,” and “Quake” published in Impost: a Journal of Creative and Critical Work. January, 2024.
• “Nearby there is a Field,” originally published in Watershed Review, will be featured on WPSU’s Poetry Moment on October 23, 2023. 
• “All the Difference,” volume 39.1 of The MacGuffin
• “Letter to a 19-year-old Revolutionary” in HeartWood Literary Magazine’s Fall, 2023 issue. 
• “Affinities,” spring 2023, Crab Creek Review
• “In Highland Cemetery,” a collaborative poem with my son Micah James Bauman, spring 2023, Whale Road Review
• “Noriega Dies the Morning I Visit Dad,” February, 2023, Blood Orange Review
• “Field Notes with Hawk and Toad,” Fall/Winter, 2022, Valparaiso Poetry Review
• “Emergency Room,” “Echo,” & “Nearby there is a Field,” Watershed Review, Spring/Fall, 2020
• “Home” and “End Road Work,” Flying Island, July & Sept 2020
• “How It Ought to Be,” New Ohio Review, Spring 2020
• “Through the Dark,” Citron Review, Winter 2019
• “Of Bats and Brothers,” finalist for 2018 Pangaea Prize at the Poet’s Billow
• “End of the Trail Café” Third Wednesday, Summer 2019
• Two poems in Lovejets, Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Whitman (May, 2019)
• Review of Marjorie Maddox’s chapbook, Wives’ Tales, The Windhover
• Review of Marjorie Maddox’s book True, False, None of the Above, Whale Road Review
• Three ekphrastic, untitled poems with Micah James Bauman, The Green Rune Anthology
• “Wednesday Want and Worship,” 2 Bridges Review
• “Advent,” Barely South Review
• “Father” San Pedro River Review, Spring  2016
• “Elemental” San Pedro River Review, Fall 2015
• Three Poems in theTic Toc Anthology, Kind of a Hurricane Press  
• “Swing,” “Stray,” and “George,” Contemporary American Voices
• “Amish Fantasy” in T(OUR)
• “For the Man in the Museum” & “On Selecting Optics,” Word Fountain

Bird Words

• “Get Hooked on Hawk Watching,” September 2025 in Bird Lore and PA Wilds
• “You Can Help Birds Just by Looking Around,” a short article about the third edition of the Pennsylvania Bird Atlas was published in the Bird Lore column, distributed to seven or eight Pennsylvania newspapers as well as on the website PA WILDS. May, 2024.