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David Kirby

About

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has received many honors for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Kirby is the author of The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Help Me, Information: Poems.

Articles

Issue 94, Fall 2016

1973

Kid comes to see me during office hours, and he says he has / a weekend job at a gas station, and one Saturday, two girls / from French class come by

By David Kirby

BEAUTIFUL AND BRASH

Augusta, I discovered, has shades of what cultural critic Greil Marcus calls the Old, Weird America. Sure, the city is ringed with mansions and country-club culture, but when you’re downtown,...

By David Kirby
Web Feature

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

If I’m thinking about how old Willie is, you can bet Willie’s thinking about it a lot more than I am.

By David Kirby