David Havird is a poet and essayist, the author of Weathering: Poems and Recollections, published by Mercer University Press in 2020. A native South Carolinian, he attended the University of South Carolina, where he studied under James Dickey, and the University of Virginia, where he completed his graduate studies with a doctoral dissertation on Thomas Hardy. While not a prolific poet, David has published for many years in important journals. In 1975 he broke into print with a poem in The New Yorker. His poems have appeared in Agni, The Hopkins Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry, Raritan, Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, and Yale Review, and online at Poetry Daily.
