| 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:
From Toronto Trek 2000 (July, 2000):
Here I am with my Brother-in-Law, Robert J. Sawyer, |
Some of the information on this page is updated to June 27, 2008. UPCOMING THINGS: Please go to my Events
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Poem Published Echolocation I have a poem in the current issue. The poem is: My Father's Office
Poem Published
RECENT THINGS: 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]
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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. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Clink (c)2002 |
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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. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Clink (c)2001 |
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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. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Clink (c)2000 |
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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
My best 15 Speculative Poems Black Sun
My best 15 humorous poems - |
LtoR: Joel Giroux, Ray Hsu, David Clink, Chris Jennings |
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