“David Shumate’s High Water Mark is absolutely fresh and unpredictable. . . . You will be surprised by your confrontation with the utterly first rate.”
— Jim Harrison
David Shumate is the author of The Floating Bridge and High Water Mark, winner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared widely in literary journals and has been anthologized in Good Poems for Hard Times, The Best American Poetry and The Writer’s Almanac. Shumate is poet-in-residence at Marian University and lives in Zionsville, Indiana. David and I talk about poems that surprise you, the elemental essence that gardening, cooking, contemplation, poetry share, what it means to follow the brush, culturing of wisdom is at the heart of the arts, and much more. David also reads a few of his poems including one of my all-time favorites, “Teaching a Child the Art of Confession”.
Episode Show Notes
Works by David Shumate
Resources & People Mentioned
- “High Water Mark” by David Shumate
- “Teaching a Child the Art of Confession” by David Shumate
- “The Funeral of the Moon” by David Shumate
- Toni Morrison
- Todd Davis
- Basho
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Jim Harrison
- Robert Bly
- “High Water Rising” by Sally Lamb McCune (music inspired by Shumate’s poetry)
- “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- William Stafford
- Michael Ondaatje
- “The Master” by Donald Hall
Drink Recommended
- Guinness
photo drawn from upittpress.com
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