About David
David is a poet, fiction writer, and lyricist who has authored four published works. He steals inspiration from living and writing in Chicago, London, DC, and traveling throughout Europe and the Caribbean, sailing competitively on the Great Lakes and leisurely along the Mediterranean coasts of Spain and France, composing on the French and English canals, and retreating to the high hills of Jamaica. He is writing now from his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, drawing on its surging renewal that licks alongside its exquisite echoes of a lost past.
In his art, David brings together diverse peoples and struggles into unifying humanitarian expression. He concentrates on personal and collective identity, the eternal question of humanity's innately-known but always-mysterious genesis, the absolute unity of all people in all places and times, and the meaning of suffering. His work intensely examines the small and subtle events of life to unlock their powerful metaphor and build a common intimacy among all people. It confronts the reader with a raw and immutable compassion. And the lyricism of his writing advances the expressive limits of language. David believes in the communion of the spoken word; everything he writes is intended to be read aloud.
David earned a mechanical engineering degree from Notre Dame, where he was also a varsity athlete and debate captain, and a law degree with honors from George Washington University. He has worked for the U.S. federal appellate courts and as a public servant and trial attorney in the Pennsylvania criminal courts. He is also a volunteer theology teacher.
In January 2010, at the age of twenty-eight, David released his first two poetry collections. Sometimes Form Sometimes Vessel is an internal-looking examination of identity and its dualism. Call it Perpetual is an outward-looking examination of commonality among diverse and memorable characters that hearken back to humanity's mysterious beginnings. David's third poetry collection, The Unexpected Guest, will be available at Christmas 2011. The longest of his collections, it examines the surprising and eternal honesty hidden among the noise of life, waiting for a keen eye. All three works are published by Culturatti Ink, out of Indianapolis. To support David and Culturatti's belief in advancing youth literacy, proceeds from every sale of his poetry books support literary-arts programs in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
David's powerful and inventive novel-length fiction piece, Elynia, is available May, 29, 2011, published by Dark Coast Press out of Seattle. In resonant lyric, Elynia examines the large consequences of small events in the lives of generations of characters connected in strange and intimate ways. It discovers that all are united and communicative, not only factually, but also by the sad and celebratory enduring need that permeates all lives under many disguises. Its kaleidoscopic characters persevere in hope despite a relentless storm of time that erodes their identities.
David's poetry is also featured as lyrics for the newest CD by world-renowned bass, composer, and professor Guenko Guechev, which will be released in 2011. Other works in progress for David include a collection of short stories, two lyrically-rich novels, and a tragically comical romp of misguided small-town youth. He continues to write poetry for forthcoming collections.
