Do you remember that old guy,who kept his television going all day in thatnoisy building where we lived inPhiladelphia for a few months, years ago?We had just arrived in town, the paperwas putting us up while we lookedfor a place. His game shows murmured through thewalls so clear we answeredthe questions as we ate. A […]
Author: David Tucker
David Tucker’s book, Late for Work, won the Bakeless Poetry Prize, selected by Philip Levine, and was published by Houghton Mifflin. He also won a national chapbook contest held by Slapering Hol Press, for Days When Nothing Happens. He was awarded a Witter Bynner Fellowship by the Library of Congress, selected by Donald Hall.
A native Tennessean, Tucker has read twice at the Library of Congress and three times on NPR. Ted Kooser selected two of his poems for American Life in Poetry.
A career journalist, he supervised investigations for the Star-Ledger newspaper and edited two Pulitzer Prize winners.
Self-Portrait Using the Word “No”
No more television.No more television?No more television, You have screwed around all day long, neglected your family, your writing, your chores,watched nothing but football,lying on the couch like a fish on the sea bottom. No more McDonald’s either.No more McDonald’s?No more McDonald’s, you’re getting fat, your heart hums in the morning from the junk you eat.and […]