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David M. Parsons

DAVID M. PARSONS holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State University of New York (Geneseo) and the French/American Legation Poetry Prize. He is founder of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council's Writers in
Performance Series. Parsons poems have most recently appeared in Gulf Coast, The Texas Review, and Louisiana Literature. Parsons was
designated Poet Laureate of Montgomery County Texas for 2005 - 2010. He is Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at North Harris Montgomery College.

Winner of the 1999 Texas Review Poetry Prize
Finalist of the 2000 Violet Crown Book Award
Editing Sky
by David M. Parsons

"Whether he is writing about historic houses and stately anonymous trees, or flying back— flying forward!—to reconnect to his aged father, or playing handball, or reading Kierkegaard, Dave Parsons writes with a rugged and forthright honesty, with an openhearted freshness, with the true voice of
feeling. It behooves us to listen." —Edward Hirsch

"Energy and exuberance—Texas virtues—mark these new poems by Dave Parsons. Editing Sky is exactly their challenge: to bring into narrative focus the immediacy of their celebrations and concerns; to bring down to
scale the size of the ambition they place on the moment. At their best, Parsons' poems make a kind of country city music of the language of this longing."—Stanley Plumly