David Harrity

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, editor, teacher
Location Nicholasville, KY, United States
Introduction I am a writer, editor, critic, and teacher from Kentucky. My work appears in or is forthcoming from issues of Ruminate Magazine, Copper-Nickel, Existere, The L.A. Review, The Portland Review, and The White Pelican Review. A chapbook of my poems, “Morning and What Has Come Since,” (Finishing Line Press, 2007) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Kentucky Literary Award. I am also the poetry editor of Ontologica: A Journal of Art and Thought (http://warriorpoetgroup.com/Ontologica/).
Interests Poetry, reading, music, movies.
Favorite Movies Rocky, Comedian, In Good Company, Return to Me, Moonstruck, Arrested Development, MST3K, Lady in the Water, Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Gladiator, any Alfred Hitchcock movie
Favorite Music The Band, Bob Dylan, The Promise Ring, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Queen, Ester Drang, Maritime, Joan of Arc, Paul Simon, Counting Crows, The Beatles, Ben Harper, BR549, David Gray, Fleetwood Mac, Leon Russell, Jack Johnson, John Courgar Mellencamp, Creedence Clearwater Revival, U2, Sufjan Stevens, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Death Cab for Cutie, Delta Blues, Gram Parson, Neil Diamond, Chemic, Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Devocka
Favorite Books Robert Bly's "Iron John, " T. Crunk's "Living in the Resurrection, " Whitman's Leaves of Grass, " Susanna Childress's "Jagged With Love, " Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones, " William Stafford "The Way It Is, " Lynne Truss's "Eats Shoots and Leaves, " Huston Smith's "The World's Religions, " Richard Hugo's "The Triggering Town, " Maureen Morehead's "A Sense of Time Left, " Elie Wiesel's "Night" and "Dawn, " Flannery O'Connor's "Mystery and Manners" and "The Complete Stories"