David Havird is the author of two collections of poems, Map Home (2013) and Penelope's Design (2010), which won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. His new book, Weathering, published in 2020 by Mercer University Press, is a "chimeric omnibus" of poetry and memoir. He taught for 30 years at Centenary College of Louisiana. He lives in Shreveport.
The poems David Havird read were:
All three appear in his new book Weathering: Poems and Recollections (Mercer University Press, 2020).
"Molting" appeared originally in Literary Matters, "Wedding Wind" in The Hopkins Review, and "Upon This Rock" in Literary Bohemian.