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David Livingstone Clink is the Artistic Director of the Rowers Pub Reading Series (www.rowerspubreadingseries.com), a monthly poetry and fiction series, and the webmaster of poetrymachine.com, a resource for poets with over 400 links to journals. David's poetry has appeared in over 50 journals, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, On Spec, The Antigonish Review, Cicada, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain Magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, The Prairie Journal, and in ten anthologies, including Garden Variety, I.V. Lounge Nights, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, and Imagination in Action. His poem "Falling" was a finalist for two awards in 2008: the Rhysling Award, and the Aurora Award. His poem "Copyright Notice 2525" was second in the 2007 Asimov's Readers Poll. David is the creator, host and organizer of the annual Dead Poets Society Night readings at the Art Bar Poetry Series, the event is now in its 6th year. David was the Artistic Director of the Art Bar Poetry Series (Canada's longest running and largest weekly poetry-only reading series) between June 2002 and June 2005. David and Myna Wallin are the co-publishers of believe your own press, which published 20 poetry chapbooks in 5 years, including WCDR Chapbook contest winner Resident Alien by Teresa Dunat Banks. He is the author of 5 poetry chapbooks and the editor of 7 others. His first book of poetry, Eating Fruit Out of Season was published by Tightrope Books in 2008. To find out more about David, go to his Web site, www.poetrymachine.com.
Awards
Finalist - Aurora Award - Best Short-Form Work in English, 2007. "Falling" appeared in On Spec 19.3 [70] (Fall 2007)
Finalist - Rhysling Award - Short Poem Category, 2008. "Falling" -
appeared in On Spec 19.3 [70] (Fall 2007)
Finalist - Asimov's Readers' Awards - Poetry Category, 2007. "Copyright
Notice 2525" - appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Dec. 2006, v. 30, no.
12
Finalist - Rhysling Award - Short Poem Category, 2002. "Shipwreck" -
appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact - November 2001, v. 121, no.
11
Finalist - Rhysling Award - Short Poem Category, 2001. "First Contact" -
appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact - July/August, 2000, v.120,
no.7
Selected Publications
Eating Fruit Out of Season (Tightrope Books, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783351-1-3
Selected Anthologies
I.V. lounge Nights (Tightrope Books,
2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783351-4-4
Imagination in Action (The Mercury Press,
2007)
ISBN: 1-55128-132-5
Garden Variety: an anthology of flower poems (Quattro Books,
2007)
ISBN: 978-0-9782806-4-2
Books in Print
Eating Fruit Out of Season (Tightrope Books, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-9783351-1-3, $14.95
David Clink,
208 - 91 Townsgate Drive, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 8E8
Phone: 647-298-9367
E-mail: dclink@yorku.ca
Website: http://www.poetrymachine.com/
Link: http://www.rowerpubreadingseries.com/
Link: http://tightropebooks.com/
Link: http://www.artbar.org/
Lik: http://www.sfpoetry.com/
