David Schloss

Profile

David Schloss obtained his MFA from Iowa. His academic interests primarily include: Creative writing/poetry; American and World Literature (classical, modern and contemporary); and Film: history and aesthetics.

He is the author of five books of poetry, Behind the Eyes (chapbook, 2005) Greatest Hits (2005), Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure (2001), Legends (1976) and The Beloved (1973) — with another, Group Portrait From Hell, recently completed.

Individual poems have appeared in Antaeus, Ohio Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, Crazy Horse, Western Humanities Review, and many other literary journals. His work has been included in The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Best Poems anthologies, as well as many others. He has written critical essay/reviews on contemporary poetry including a lengthy one in The Cincinnati Review.

He was Project Editor for two volumes in the Miami University Poetry Press Series, for which he served as First Reader. He has been a past recipient of a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Individual Artist Fellowship from Ohio Arts Council, and has received a number of citations for good teaching from the University of Cincinnati and Miami University.

He has finished another poetry manuscript, Reports from Babylon, and is working on another one, Rational Animals and Others. He is also revising a review, God Hunger in Three Aging White Men, of the work of contemporary poets Michael Ryan, Henri Cole and Frederick Seidel, towards publication.