Ways of Being Dead

David Starkey teaches Creative Writing at Santa Barbara City College and is the author of the textbook Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (McGrawHill, 1999), as well as many collections of poems from small presses, including Fear of Everything, winner of Palanquin Press’s Spring 2000 chapbook contest, and David Starkey’s Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002). Over the past eighteen years he has published more than 400 poems in literary magazines such as American Scholar, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cutbank, Faultline, Greensboro Review, The Journal, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Nebraska Review, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sycamore Review, Texas Review, and Wormwood Review. With Paul Willis, he co-edited In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (U. of Iowa Press, 2005), and he is the editor of the essay collection Living Blue in the Red States (U. of Nebraska Press, 2007). Keywords in Creative Writing, which Starkey co-authored with the late Wendy Bishop, was published by Utah State University Press.David Starkey is the author of 'Ways of Being Dead', published 2006 under ISBN 9780978847517 and ISBN 0978847512.