David Havird

David Havird is the author most recently of Weathering (2020), which includes prose memoir as well as poetry. Find new poems of his in recent issues of the Asheville Poetry ReviewBirmingham Poetry ReviewLiterary ImaginationLiterary MattersLowestoft Chronicle, and Raritan. He retired from the classroom in 2020 after 30 years at Centenary College of Louisiana.

  • Obeying the Call of Luminous Things: Writing in Paris with Czeslaw Milosz by David Havird

    In an interview with Cynthia Haven in 2000, Milosz observes, “It seems to me every poet after death goes through a purgatory, so to say,” where his or her achievement endures the fire of critical “revision.”