David Baker is an American poet, literary editor, critic, and educator based in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York. He is author of many books of poetry and poetry commentary, most recently Transit (poems, W. W. Norton, 2026), Whale Fall (poems, W.W. Norton, 2022), and as editor, Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly (W.W. Norton, 2025). His work appears in such journals as The Atlantic, The Nation, New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and has been translated into Romanian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian.

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