“I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where I attended Indiana University. Upon graduation, I moved to northern New Mexico, where I studied at Saint John’s College. I have been, for a good deal of my life, involved in the (sometimes strange, sometimes surprisingly fortuitous) union of Projectivist poetics with Neo-Thomist philosophy. I hasten to add here that I am interested in a kind of expanding, breathing, and non-dogmatic Thomism, where metaphysics morphs into new territories and philosophies. Like Karl Jaspers’ possible Existenz, poetry is in the quick of potency and act at once. Poetry seeks transcendence while being rooted in the world. Words live (and perhaps only live) by world-transcendence in the here and now. Words, it seems to me, are inherently sacramental; they are the outer sounding of an inner grace. This marks the very heart of theopoetics.”

David is the author of several books, including Veils, Esse, Sign, Enigma and Light, Icon, Accord, and Poetic Faith.