DAVID M. KATZ
An award-winning financial journalist as well as a poet, David M. Katz was born on New York’s Lower East Side and has lived most of his life in Manhattan. He is the author of four books of poetry—In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz, and Claims of Home, all published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest, published by House of Keys Press. Poems of his have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review (UK), The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, Shenandoah, Alabama Literary Review, The Cortland Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. His criticism has appeared in The Hopkins Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Raintown Review, Jewish Quarterly (UK), and Congress Monthly. His sonnet crown “On Retirement” received an honorable mention in Poetry by the Sea’s 2019 Sonnet Contest. He has spoken on the work of Anthony Hecht, Dick Allen, Helen Adam, Denise Levertov, Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, George Oppen, Hilda Morley, Tiana Clark, Richie Hoffman, and Joy Ladin.
A co-host of the Red Harlem Readers series of poetry readings, he is married to the poet Linda Stern. Together, they founded and published Endymion, a poetry journal.