Biography
David M. Perkins is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent, In From Forever, preceded by Post-Modern Blues, and I May or May Not Love You, all from Ice Cube Press. When not struggling to deal with the distractions of a life he did not ask for, he is on a quest to renew and revitalize contemporary poetry, to reconfigure and honor the traditions of English poetry, but to make it eminently more accessible. He believes the Past is there to plunder and that our duty is to haul that gold forward to enrich the Present.
Perkins’ life has been immersed in books: first as the owner of two bookstores in the Denver area, and subsequently as a book publishing executive with the University of Illinois Press, Georgetown University Press, and Oxford University Press (USA) among them. Recipient of the Ann Woodbury Hafen Award from the Poetry Society of Colorado, his poetry, book reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including for The Wordsworth Trust in the UK, and in Willows Wept Review, Christopher Street Magazine, High Plains Literary Review, The Bloomsbury Review, When the Bluebird Sings: An Oscar Wilde Journal, The Chariton Review, and elsewhere.
