David Burr

David Stanford Burr (Col ’77, Grad ’81 CM) recently published Ledger Domain, his debut full-length collection of poems, an autobiography with a license in legerdemain. Burr is the author of The Poet’s Notebook: Inspiration, Techniques, and Advice on Craft as well as editor of seven hardcover, poetry-themed anthologies. He is a managing editor at St. Martin’s/Macmillan, one of the “Big Five” trade book publishers, currently in his 35th year, and for 24 years, as adjunct associate professor, he taught courses in book publishing as well as poetry writing workshops at New York University’s School of Professional Studies, Center for Applied Liberal Arts. He is compiling a second collection of poems, and a third focuses on the British infantry mired in the trenches on the Western Front during the Great War. David and his wife, Joan, live in Maplewood, New Jersey, with their daughter, Lauren, a newly degreed engineer.

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