David Chorlton

Author's Bio

During my thirty years in Phoenix I have given and organized many readings, also taught a weekly creative writing class at Scottsdale Senior Center since 1994. I live with a European past, replete with memories of art galleries plus a love of music, and a present rooted on the Southwest desert.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Places You Can't Reach (Pudding House Publications, 2006), Another Word (Pudding House Publications, 2005), Return to Waking Life (Main Street Rag Press, 2004), A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press, 2003), Assimilation (Main Street Rag Press, 2000), Fever Dreams (University of Arizona Press, 1997), Outposts (Taxus Press, 1994), Forget the Country You Came From (Singular Street, 1992)

Anthologies:

Waiting for the Quetzal (March Street Press, 2006), Unexpected Harvest (Kings Estate Press, 2005)

Journals:

Connecticut Review, Devil's Millhopper, Edgz, Free Lunch, Green Fuse, Heaven Bone, Lucid Stone, Main Street Rag, Parting Gifts, Poet Lore, Skidrow Penthouse, Webster Review

Prizes:

The Slipstream Chapbook Ward (2009) for The Age of Miracles The Ronald Wardall Prize from Rain Mountain Press (2008) for the chapbook manuscript, The Lost River

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Collected Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

Favorite Books:

Vixen by W. S,. Merwin You Can't Have Everything by Richard Shelton Mining the Darkness by Stephen Stepanchev Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Favorite Authors:

Eugenio Montale, Ingeborg Bachmann, Franz Kafka, W. S. Merwin, Tomas Transtromer,

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Listing last updated: May 15, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Austrian American

Prefers to work with:

Naturalists/Environmentalists

Fluent in:

German

Born in:

Spittal-An-Der-Drau

Raised in:

Manchester