David Ray
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- For the Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient, see David R. Ray
David Ray (born May 20, 1932), is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir. He is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern.
Ray is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry and is the founding editor of New Letters magazine and New Letters On The Air. His most recent books are The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars and Music of Time: Selected and New Poems.
He has taught at several colleges in the United States, including Cornell University, Reed College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he is professor emeritus. He has also taught in India, New Zealand, and Australia, and has published books inspired by the cultures of each country.
Among other prizes, including an N.E.A. fellowship for fiction and five P.E.N. Newspaper Syndicate Awards for short stories, David Ray is a two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
He and his wife, poet and essayist Judy Ray, live in Tucson, Arizona.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- X-Rays (1965)
- Gathering Firewood: New Poems and Selected (1974)
- Elysium in the Halls of Hell ({1989)
- Kangaroo Paws: Poems Written in Australia (1994)
- The Endless Search: A Memoir (2003)
- The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004)
