David Landrey spent 38 years teaching literature, 35 of them at Buffalo State College, where he was afforded the freedom to develop courses in American Postmodern Poets and thus to educate himself about what has been most interesting in letters in our time. He studied briefly with Charles Olson at SUNY Buffalo and feels blessed to have met and worked with so many exciting poets, known and unknown. The co-editor of Drawing From Life: A Selection of Joel Oppenheimer's Work From the Village Voice and of Oppenheimer's Poetry: The Ecology of the Soul, he is the author of CONSCIOUSNESS SUITE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009) and INTERMEZZI TO DIVORCE POEMS AND DINNER TABLE SCENES (Jensen/Daniels, 2002). He has recently had essays published in THE BODY OF THIS LIFE: READING WILLIAM BRONK (Talisman House, 2001) and on Robert Creeley and Joel Oppenheimer in THE WORLD IN TIME AND SPACE: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INNOVATIVE AMERICAN POETRY IN OUR TIME (Talisman House, 2002).
