Join celebrated nature poet David Baker as he launches his fourteenth poetry collection, Transit, where he reflects on environmental change, political transformation, and the ineluctable fact of aging. Baker will be in conversation with fellow poet, Julia Kolchinsky, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.
Registration for this free event is on Eventbrite. You can pre-purchase Transit during registration, and it will also be available at the event.
DENISON UNIVERSITY is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.
We are—human and nonhuman—all on the move. In keenly observed verse, David Baker carries us across physical and emotional geographies, moving seamlessly from deep woods, city streets, bay shores, and creek beds to the contours of his own psyche and the larger cultural circumstances that mark off our lives.
But these dynamic poems are grounded in a deep sense of home, posing poignant questions about where we live, what we seek, and how we find our way through the world. Both an imaginative point of departure and a love letter to familiar places, the poems in Transit pay studied attention to the topographies of the world around us and the terrain of the heart.
David Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. He has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and more. Baker lives in Granville, Ohio, where he is emeritus professor of English at Denison University.
Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Parallax (2025) selected as finalist for the Miller Williams Prize by Patricia Smith. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.
