Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. "I value David Tucker's poems for their concentration on the mysteries of the vivid: the unfathomable mysteries that flare from the ordinary, what he calls the 'judder and stutter of events.' His seismograph tracks the newsroom's trembling for event, charting the peaks and valleys of our general human need for sensation or knowledge. He writes about that need clearly, cleanly, with a reporter's respect for information and a poet's awareness of the undisclosed. This brief selection is a pleasurable, memorable read. It leaves me wanting more"--Robert Pinsky.

David Tucker, a graduate of the University of Michigan, studied poetry with Robert Hayden, and his collection, Late for Work (2006), won a Bakeless Prize from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. His earlier collection, Days When Nothing Happens, won the 2003 Slapering Hol Press chapbook competition. Tucker has worked for 28 years at leading newspapers and is a member of the New Jersey Star-Ledger team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.