David Starkey

Poet, Educator & Editor

  • Welcome
  • Novels
    • The Fairley Brothers in Japan
    • Poor Ghost
  • Nonfiction
    • Talking Heads (On Track)
  • Poetry
    • Tell Me Why
    • The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light
    • You, Caravaggio
    • Cutting It Loose
    • What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency (A Satire)
    • Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song
    • Like a Soprano
    • Circus Maximus
    • It Must Be Like the World
    • A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel
    • Starkey’s Book of States
    • Adventures of the Minor Poet
    • Ways of Being Dead
    • David Starkey’s Greatest Hits, 1990-2000
    • Fear of Everything
    • Koan American
  • Educator
    • Hello, Writer
    • Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
    • Academic Writing Now
    • Keywords in Creative Writing
    • Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach
    • Teaching Writing Creatively
    • Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations
  • Editor
    • Living Blue in the Red States
    • In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare
    • In Praise of Pedagogy
    • Smokestacks and Skyscrapers
  • Media
  • Contact
  • Welcome
  • Novels
    • The Fairley Brothers in Japan
    • Poor Ghost
  • Nonfiction
    • Talking Heads (On Track)
  • Poetry
    • Tell Me Why
    • The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light
    • You, Caravaggio
    • Cutting It Loose
    • What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency (A Satire)
    • Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song
    • Like a Soprano
    • Circus Maximus
    • It Must Be Like the World
    • A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel
    • Starkey’s Book of States
    • Adventures of the Minor Poet
    • Ways of Being Dead
    • David Starkey’s Greatest Hits, 1990-2000
    • Fear of Everything
    • Koan American
  • Educator
    • Hello, Writer
    • Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
    • Academic Writing Now
    • Keywords in Creative Writing
    • Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach
    • Teaching Writing Creatively
    • Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations
  • Editor
    • Living Blue in the Red States
    • In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare
    • In Praise of Pedagogy
    • Smokestacks and Skyscrapers
  • Media
  • Contact

Novels

David Starkey is the author of Poor Ghost and the forthcoming The Fairley Brothers in Japan.

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