The Slaughterhouse Poems
Dave Newman is the author of the novels RAYMOND CARVER WILL NOT RAISE OUR CHILDREN (Writers Tribe Books, 2012) and PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ANYONE TONIGHT (World Parade Books, 2010). He’s worked as a truck driver, a book store manager, an air filter salesman, a house painter, and a college teacher. More than 100 of his poems and stories have appeared in magazines throughout the world and his work has been widely anthologized, most recently in BESIDE THE CITY OF ANGELS (World Parade Books) and THE AUTUMN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY (Autumn House Press).  In 2004, he received the Andre Dubus Novella Award. He lives in Trafford, Pennsylvania with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children.