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Hi,
my name is David Clink,
and this is my
website.
I am the webmaster of www.poetrymachine.com.
Please find samples of my poetry at the bottom!

Author photo courtesy of Geoff George.
Please see other author photos below.
Email: dclink@yorku.ca
My sister, Carolyn Clink,
is a renowned poet, and she is married to science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. If you want to find
out about them, please check out sfwriter.com.
I was born on June 20th, 1962, in
Medicine Hat, Alberta, and grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut and Toronto, Ontario. I
am related to the Scottish explorer David Livingstone. I am the Circulation Coordinator at
the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library at York University, where I graduated
with a degree in English.
I am the author of 5 poetry chapbooks:
His
name was Gord, and he used to run with the bulls
[OUT OF PRINT]
The Surly
Blondes of Earth
[OUT OF PRINT]
Come-on
from the Horse on 7th Avenue
Shapeshifter
One Dozen
I am the editor of seven poetry chapbooks:
Hate Mail & Love Letters
by Herb Kauderer
email: hkauderer@yahoo.com
ISBN: 0-9715712-0-1
The Day I Ate Jupiter (and other poems)
by Sandra Kasturi
Kelp Queen Press
website: http://kelpqueenpress.com
ISBN: 0-9689934-4-3
Under the
Dragon's Tail
by Clara Blackwood
believe your own press
ISBN: 0-9730445-3-5
Larger Than Still Life
by Joel Giroux
believe your own press
ISBN: 0-9730445-6-X
Midnight Grocery
by Dani Couture
believe your own press
ISBN: 0-9736423-1-9
The Beautiful
Darkness
by Ron Newberry Evans
believe your own press
ISBN: 0-9736423-3-5
It's No
Secret You'll Feel Better
by Nashira Dernesch
believe your own press
ISBN: 0-9736423-3-5
I started a small press with poet Myna Wallin
called: believe your own press
I am the Artistic Director of the Rowers
Pub Reading Series.
I was the Artistic Director of the Art
Bar Poetry Series, a reading series that occurs every Tuesday at 8
p.m. at the Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street (1 block west of Bathurst, 1
block South of Bloor). I began my tenure June 1, 2002, and
completed it June 30, 2005.
I have been writing poetry since the Fall of 1995, when I joined the
Algonquin Square Table, a poetry workshop that meets at Hart House
(University of Toronto). You can find my poetry in over 50 journals in
Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain, including Analog, The Antigonish
Review, Chiaroscura, Cicada, The Comstock Review,
The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Grain Magazine, The
Fiddlehead, The
Harpweaver, The Literary Review of Canada, Lynx, Midwest
Poetry Review, On Spec, paperplates, Point Judith
Light, The Prairie Journal, RE:AL, The Rockford Review, Satire, Tales of the Unanticipated,
and The Timber Creek Review. My poetry has also appeared in the
following anthologies: The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of
Night; Legacy; and The World Fantasy Convention 2001 CD-ROM.
I have hosted and organized an annual event as part of the Art Bar Poetry
Series, in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007 called The Dead Poets Society,
where readers read from poets who have passed on. The most recent was held
December 11, 2007.

I am a panelist each year at Toronto science
fiction conventions, Ad Astra, and Polaris (formerly TorontoTrek). I am
also a regular panelist at Eeriecon, a convention held in Niagara Falls on
the American side.

Other Author Photos:
(courtesy of Geoff George)
(www.geoffgeorge.com)
please credit Geoff George if you use one!

(Author Photo courtesy of Geoff George)


(Author Photo courtesy of Geoff George)


(Author Photo courtesy of Geoff George)


Myna Wallin and me at the Toronto Small Press Fair, Fall 2002.

From Toronto Trek 2000 (July, 2000):
Alexandra Tydings,
David Clink, and Claire Stansfield.
[Photo by Roger
Czernada (c)2000]

Here I am with my Brother-in-Law, Robert J. Sawyer,
at the Vietnam Memorial, August 1998
[Photo by Carolyn Clink (c) 1998]
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Some of the information on this page
is updated to June 27, 2008.
UPCOMING THINGS:
Please go to my Events
page
for upcoming things!

Poem Published
Echolocation
I have a poem in the current issue.
The poem is:
My Father's Office

Poem Published
All Rights Reserved Literary Journal
I will have a poem in the Spring 2008 issue.
The poem is:
Hercules, when dying

RECENT THINGS:
Falling
My poem Falling was nominated for two awards,
The
Rhysling Award; and The
Aurora Award.
Here is the text of the poem as it appeared in On Spec:
NOTE: click on the title "Falling"
to get larger text.
Falling
It was 1969. I fell out of a tree. It was the year
Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon, Armstrong most notably, first.
I have since fallen in love, many times, each time thinking it would last,
and sorted all my poetry books by author’s last name. I have not told
you this to make you envious, or jealous. This is a cautionary tale, how
one boy tried to climb the sky with the side of a crib over one shoulder,
and some string, how he fell to Earth, the last image in his mind, the
moon against a light-blue canvas. Hospitals are a long way from the moon.
People like you and me will one day be buried up there, and they will look
down on our graves with hollow eyes. Elevators will rise up to orbit. A
terminal will be there, shuttles to the moon every hour on the hour.
Taking the elevator back down to earth, people will feel like they are
falling. Share this with no one. Walk among the trees. Walk among the
trees under the limbs that will taunt you, but let them. These limbs only
want to embrace your lack of imagination, your doubt.
[published in ON SPEC, Fall 2007, #70, v. 19, no. 3]


My fifth poetry chapbook,
One Dozen
was launched by believe your own
press
in May 2007 at The Victory Cafe.
It is available for $8 (plus postage & packaging)
from the publisher.

My fourth poetry chapbook,
Shapeshifter
was launched by believe your own
press
in October 2004 at The Victory Cafe.
It is available for $4 (plus postage & packaging)
from the publisher.


My third Chapbook,
Come-on
from the Horse on 7th Avenue
was launched by believe your own
press
in October 2002 at The Victory Cafe.
It is available for $4 (plus postage & packaging)
from the publisher.

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My second Chapbook,
The
Surly Blondes of Earth
was launched by believe your own
press
in March 2002 at The Art Bar.
OUT OF PRINT.


My first Chapbook,
His name was
Gord, and he used to run with the bulls
was launched by Junction Books
in
May 2001 at Clinton's.
OUT OF PRINT

Author Photo (appeared in Satire - The Ezine)
by Carolyn Clink - ©1998.
From Satire - the Ezine (now defunct): The author photo shows Mr. Clink preparing to
"pile drive" a fake octopus at the Ed Wood party at the World Science Fiction
Convention in Baltimore, August 1998.
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Algonquin Square Table poets (April,
2004): back row, left to right
- Adam Getty, Ed Baranosky, Shannon Blake, Mariana
Mastagar, Carleton Wilson, Susan A. Manchester, Caroline
Li, and Clara Blackwood, front row, left to right, Carolyn
Clink, Myna Wallin, David Clink (hey, that's me, in the "have a
pheasant plucking day" white sweater, the same one I wore in the 2001
photo).
Not pictured: Sam Cheuk, Joel Giroux, Mici Gold, Sandra
Kasturi, Megan McClure, A. F. Moritz, Lisa O'Leary,
and, Souvankham Thammavongsa.
Photo courtesy of Carolyn Clink (c)2004 |
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Algonquin Square Table poets (April,
2003): back row, left to right
- Kristi Green, Susan A. Manchester, Carleton Wilson, David
Clink, Ed Baranosky, A. F. Moritz, Adam Getty,
_________, front row, left to right, Ray Hsu, Myna Wallin, Carolyn
Clink, Sandra Kasturi.
Not pictured: Shannon Blake, Joel Giroux, Mici Gold, Caroline
Li, Megan McClure, Lisa O'Leary, and, Souvankham
Thammavongsa.
Photo courtesy of Carolyn Clink (c)2003 |
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Algonquin Square Table poets (April,
2002): back row, left to right
- Susan A. Manchester, Helena Stecker, Carleton Wilson,
David Clink, Ed Baranosky, A. F. Moritz, Raymond
Gallardo, Susan Vickberg, Ray Hsu, front row, left to
right, Melisa Fauceglia, Jennifer Bronson, Mici Gold,
Carolyn Clink, Myna Wallin, sitting, Caroline Li.
Not pictured: Kristi Green,
Sandra
Kasturi, and
Adrienne Weiss.
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Algonquin Square Table poets (April, 2001): back row, left to right
- Nicole Romeiko, Ed Baranosky, Raymond Gallardo, Susan A.
Manchester, David Clink (hey, that's me, in the "have a
pheasant plucking day" white sweater), Carolyn Clink, James
Arthur, Adam Getty, Joel Giroux, front row, left to right -
Carleton Wilson, Lisa O'Leary, Jennifer Bronson, A. F.
Moritz, Myna Wallin,
Ray Hsu, Souvankham Thammavongsa.
Not pictured: Melisa Fauceglia, Mici Gold, Kristi Green,
Sandra
Kasturi, Caroline Li, Dana Snell, Susan Vickberg, and
Adrienne Weiss.
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Algonquin Square Table poets (April, 2000): back row, left to right
- Susan A. Manchester, Helena Stecker, Carleton Wilson,
David Clink, Ed Baronosky, A. F. Moritz, Raymond Gallardo,
Susan Vickberg. front row, left to right - Melisa Fauceglia,
Jennifer Bronson, Caroline Li (seated), Mici Gold, Carolyn
Clink, Myna Wallin, and Ray Hsu.
Not pictured: James Arthur, Adam Getty, Kristi Green, J. Raechel
Haller, Sandra
Kasturi, Dana Snell, Adrienne Weiss and Jill Windsor.
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Samples of My
Poetry:
(updated to March 22, 2008)
some of these will have links to the full-text soon.
(highlighted ones will appear in the
forthcoming book: Eating Fruit out of Season)
My best 26 poems (an alphabetical list) -
Back Cover Copy
Beyond the Eastern Edges of the
World
Clean
Climbing trees
Copyright Notice, 2525
Cottage Road
Dust
An Embrace of Green Thorns
The Earth As Egg
Falling
The Gray Men and the Secrets of
the Afterlife
Gutters
Hercules, when dying
Hotline
The Loss of Detail
Magnetic North
My Latest Poem
New Country
Now it can be told
On Manifestation
On the beach
The Six-Legged Dog Retrieves a Stick
Stacks of Books
Visited by Frogs
Wolf Kill at Doe Lake
The Woman and the Garden

My best 15 Speculative Poems
[Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror]
Black Sun
Copyright Notice, 2525
Dust
An Embrace of Green Thorns
Exhibit
Falling
The Jazz Musician and the Bus
Platform
Leeches
The moon belongs to everyone
New Country
Sailing to Atlantis
Shipwreck
The Six-Legged Dog Retrieves a Stick
Toxic Girl
weathered remains

My best 15 humorous poems -
Back Cover Copy
Beyond the Eastern Edges of the
World
Catman
Collecting Bird Farts for Dummies
Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue
Copyright Notice, 2525
His name was Gord, and he used to run with the bulls
Hotline
My Latest Poem
My Turtle Poem
The Poetry Police
Spider Love
Thank you for the salad
Top Ten Cat Songs of All Time *
Toxic Girl
* co-written with Carolyn Clink
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Author Photo
(from the World Fantasy Convention CD-ROM, fall 2001)
by Carolyn Clink - ©2001.

LtoR: Joel Giroux, Ray Hsu, David Clink, Chris Jennings
byop visits Hamilton for reading at Blue Angel,
Fall 2002.
[photo by Myna Wallin (c) 2002]
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