David Lee- Poetry Reading

Since the publication of his first book of poems, the Porcine Legacy (1974), David Lee has written poetry unlike any in American letters. His poems are informed by a background that is unique to the world of poetry: he has studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer and is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers; he has raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton, and recently retired as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University.