Lauded poet to speak at SUNY Adirondack

QUEENSBURY, New York (March 10, 2025) — Poet David Graham will speak at 12:40 p.m. Monday, March 17, as part of SUNY Adirondack’s Writers Project series.

Graham’s poems have been published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review and Sycamore Review, and featured on Poetry Daily and The Writers Almanac. 

His books include “The Honey of Earth,” “Poetry as Autobiography” (Kate Sontag and David Graham, editors), “Second Wind” and several others. His work is prized for its subtlety, precision and deep humanity.

Graham retired in 2016 from teaching writing and literature at Ripon College, where he also hosted a Visiting Writers Series for 28 years. He served on The Poets’ Prize Committee and the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, and was a resident poet and faculty member at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. 

He is a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual, where he also contributes a monthly column, “Poetic License,” on poetry and poets. He lives in Glens Falls, New York, with his wife, artist Lee Shippey. 

The series continues with the following events, each held at 12:40 p.m. in the Visual Arts Gallery:

• Monday, April 7: Fantasy novelist Philip Chase;
• Monday, April 28: Author and journalist Megan Mayhew-Bergman;
• Wednesday, April 30: SUNY Adirondack Creative Writing majors will read from their works

All Writers Project events are free and open to the public. Graham will speak in the Visual Arts Gallery in Dearlove Hall. The event will also be aired live via Zoom and can be watched at https://us06web.zoom.us/my/mccoyoffice.