title: David Tucker (poet)
text: # David Tucker (poet)
  
  David Tucker is an American poet, and news editor.
  
  ## Life
  
  He graduated from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Donald Hall.
  
  He is an assistant managing editor of the Metro section of The Star-Ledger of Newark.
  
  He married and had a daughter, Calisa. His second marriage was to Beth Johnson; they have two daughters, Emily, and Amy.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2007 Witter Bynner Fellowship
  * Bakeless prize from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
  
  ## Works
  
  * "The Dancer", Poetry Foundation
  * "Today’s News", Poetry Foundation
  * Late for work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-65868-8. David Tucker poet.
  * Days When Nothing Happens. Slapering Hol Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9700277-3-3.
  