David Middleton is Poet in Residence Emeritus at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Middleton’s books of verse include The Burning Fields (1991), Beyond the Chandeleurs (1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-FranÇois Millet (2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (2013); and Outside the Gates of Eden (2023). Middleton’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Middleton won The Allen Tate Poetry Prize at The Sewanee Review in 2005. Middleton has served as poetry editor for three national quarterlies and is the literary executor for Alabama poet John Martin Finlay.

David Middleton is Poet in Residence Emeritus at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Middleton’s books of verse include The Burning Fields (1991), Beyond the Chandeleurs (1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-FranÇois Millet (2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (2013); and Outside the Gates of Eden (2023). Middleton’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Middleton won The Allen Tate Poetry Prize at The Sewanee Review in 2005. Middleton has served as poetry editor for three national quarterlies and is the literary executor for Alabama poet John Martin Finlay.

David Middleton is Poet in Residence Emeritus at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Middleton’s books of verse include The Burning Fields (1991), Beyond the Chandeleurs (1999), The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy: Poems After Pictures by Jean-FranÇois Millet (2005), The Fiddler of Driskill Hill (2013); and Outside the Gates of Eden (2023). Middleton’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. Middleton won The Allen Tate Poetry Prize at The Sewanee Review in 2005. Middleton has served as poetry editor for three national quarterlies and is the literary executor for Alabama poet John Martin Finlay.