When young, David J. Rothman had the good fortune to study with Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand and Robert Fitzgerald. His most recent books are a textbook, Learning the Secrets of English Verse (Springer 2022), co-authored with Susan Spear, and My Brother’s Keeper (Lithic 2019), a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award in poetry. Over the last 40 years, his poems and essays have appeared in Agni, Appalachia, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry Blog, The Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, The Journal, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review and scores of other newspapers, magazines, and journals. In 2019 he won a Pushcart Prize for the poem “Kernels,” which originally appeared in The New Criterion. In 2024 he won the Karen Chamberlain Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in Colorado, and a prize from Sport Literate for “A Sweet, Wild Passion,” selected by Sydney Lea as the best submitted poem about sports in the 1970s.