David Daniels Featured in Yellow Pine Reading Series
Linda Tate

On Wednesday, September 24, David Daniels, faculty member in the University Writing Program, read from Clean, his manuscript-in-progress. Daniels was one of four featured readers in the Yellow Pine Reading Series in North Boulder.

Among the manuscript poems Daniels shared were HE, Litany, Clean, Mere Hours After the Drag Show, and Miracle Tortilla. Danielss poetry fuses wry observations on popular culture and contemporary life with long-standing religious symbols. Indeed, he describes Clean as a book of poems that examine Christ incarnate via Mommie Dearest. Daniels poems are packed with his unique brand of humor and, at the same moment, are concerned with the fragility of human life. The poems in Clean, Daniels says, look at Christ as a continual presence along with my queer longings about AIDS and other swappings of bodily fluids.

A former Stadler Fellow for Younger Poets at Bucknell University, Daniels holds a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Tulane University and earned his MFA in Poetry and his MA in Literature at Indiana University. Danielss poetry has been published in literary journals such as River Styx, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Many Mountains Moving, Third Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, and CutBank. David was editor of Indiana Review and is now a poetry editor for the experimental literary journal Born Magazine, which features multimedia, collaborative projects in poetry and image.

Organized by Boulder writer Ellen Orleans, the Yellow Pine Reading Series is a quarterly mix of town, gown, regional, visiting, experienced, and emerging writers. Poets, memoir writers, essayists, fiction writers, and those who blur definitions come together at this growing series.

Writers interested in presenting at Yellow Pine should email a writing sample (five pages of prose or three of poetry) to eorleans@earthlink.net or to Ellen Orleans, P.O. Box 1348, Boulder, CO 80306.

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