Dave Lucas

Biography

Dave Lucas is the author of Weather (VQR / Georgia, 2011), which received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. From 2018 to 2019, he served as the poet laureate of the State of Ohio. A cofounder of Cleveland Book Week and Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery, he lives in Cleveland, where he was born and raised.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2009

All Souls Night

By Dave Lucas

Autumn and its thousand adjectives have come
to this, a swither in the trees,
their limbs bronchial and backlit in the gloam.

ESSAYS

Clinton’s Last Stand

By Dave Lucas

The dissenting and disorganized Clinton campaign is ill-prepared for this extended endgame.

CRITICISM / Fall 2006

I Am Not What I Am: The Poetry of Mark Strand

By Dave Lucas

As his reputation has grown, however, into that oxymoronic epithet “famous poet,” Strand has engaged that self, satirized it, and refashioned it as a subject for his poems. If Richard Howard is right when he says that “the poems . . ...

POETRY / Winter 2006

At the Cuyahoga Flats

By Dave Lucas
POETRY / Winter 2006

The Fox

By Dave Lucas