David Baratier’s letters and poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly,
5 AM, Fourteen Hills, Heartlands Today, Jacket, Phoebe,
Poet Lore, Quarter After Eight, Red Brick Review, Riverwind,
Salt Hill, Slipstream, and many others. His poems were recently
anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, from
Carnegie Mellon University Press, Clockpunchers: Poetry of the
American Workplace and Green Meanies from University of California Press. Collections
include: A Run of Letters, 1998, Poetry New York and The Fall Of Because, Pudding House,
1999. The founder and editor of Pavement Saw Press, as well as editor of Hands
Collected: The Books of Simon Perchik: Poems 1949-1999, Baratier lives in Columbus,
Ohio. In It What’s in It is his first full length collection of non-fiction.