{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Drunk as a Poet on Payday","title":"David Baker","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2589,"description":"Today's guest is David Baker. Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. His new book is Transit, and he is the author of 12 previous collections of poetry, including, most recently, Whale Fall and Swift: New and Selected Poems, and six works of nonfiction. The first of those, Meter in English, I found incredibly important as a young graduate student. Baker is an Emeritus Professor of English at Denison University and for many years he was Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he also curated the long-running annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine. Among his awards are prizes and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council.Pick up a copy of Transit here.Read more about Baker here.Subscribe to the show's Substack newsletter!https://drunkasapoetonpayday.substack.com/Say hi to us online:Website: http://drunkasapoet.comInstagram: @drunkasapoetonpaydayBlueSky: https://drunkasapoet.bsky.social","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ph8M_T1CAbD6Lrye3wVf-1FMrZ-oIceHje6jbbt1_xE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ0Njc0LzE3MTAx/Mzg0MjctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}