David Thacker is a recipient of the Creative Writing Award from the Western Literature Association, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and has been a finalist for the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Berkshire Prize, and the Levis Prize. His poems have appeared in Orion, Tin House, Beloit Poetry Journal, Plume, LitHub, and elsewhere. Thacker directs the Visiting Writer Seminar at the Ethel Walker School.
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
Spring-Loaded
The Kenyon Review · “Spring-Loaded” by David Thacker As a child I loved the lone wolf’s lope, and the pack’s flank-to-flank choreography, plush shadowsin twilight, stories of how a wolf […]