Holding degrees in English from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, David hopped several centuries
professionally, going from an academic specializing in medieval English
literature to writing for the electronics trade press, and has taught poetry at
SUNY Stony Brook, the C. W. Post Center of Long Island University and a number of high schools in suburban Chicago and on Long Island. 
Of his first collection, The Task, The
Hoard & The Long Walk Home
(Yuganta Press, 2004; available below under "Collections and Anthologies"), PoemAlley
co-founder Ann Yarmal admires how, through his seemingly effortless wordcraft
and questing enthusiasm for our tapping the full potential in all our lives,
David “shares with us the feelings of inconsequence and the struggle to
discover our worth and our joy, with purpose and an insistent instinct for
survival.” Jean Mellichamp
Milliken, Editor of The Lyric is likewise drawn to his writing’s enobling reminder “that lives are
adventures of mythic proportions where questions come more readily than
answers.”
These themes of
indomitable perseverance, self-discovery and eager curiosity find comparable
expression in the acclaimed 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis (inspired by his
real-life aunt, Marion Tanner)
and subsequent stage and film comedy Auntie Mame. Below is a clip with the heroine’s signature “Life is a banquet!” rejoinder,
delivered by Rosalind Russell in the 1958 film version, distributed by Warner
Brothers:
David currently lives with his wife in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he watches hummingbirds by the hour and
yearly plans to make a Japanese garden in his wild backyard.
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