David Baker is a poet, critic, editor, and educator whose recent poetry collections include Transit (2026), Whale Fall (2022), and Swift: New and Selected Poems (2019), from W. W. Norton. His six books of prose about poetry include Show Me Your Environment: On Poetry, Poets, andPoems (Univ. of Michigan, 2014) and Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (Graywolf, 2007). With Michael Collier, he coedited CollectedPoems of Stanley Plumly published in 2025 by W. W. Norton.

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