David Havird

David Havird (Grad ’86) published a book of poetry, Map Home, with Texas Review Press. In the book’s opening poem, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, maps the reader home—home, as the concluding poem reveals, to the lowlands of the South. Mr. Havird lives in Shreveport, La., where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century British literature, Southern literature, poetry and creative writing at Centenary College of Louisiana. His poetry chapbook, Penelope’s Design, won the 2009 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.