Featured Artist David Hunter Sutherland

David Hunter Sutherland was born in Manhattan in 1962. He attended Boston University, majoring in Electrical Engineering. Currently he is involved with the research and development of Internet II. On-line he is the lead editor of the critically acclaimed literary journal, Recursive Angel. David is a member of the National Writers Union and the Academy of American Poets. He has won numerous awards and citations, among them the Rhysling Award, several Pushcart nominations and the Small Press Writers Award. Some of the journals he has appeared include, The American Literary Review, The Hollins Critic, The Northern Michigan Journal, The Reader (Oxford University), The Midwest Quarterly, The Nieve Roja Review, & Intellectual Poetey and Prose, to name just a few. David lives in upstate New York with his wife, Anita.

The Absolute First Sutherland's first book was published in 1996 by illiterati, the print division of Menace Publishing. Deborah-Anne Simeroth, Editor of Poet's Edge, said of Sutherland's writing, "Sutherland's work demonstrates a concrete connectedness between this world and the core of humanness. He writes with such finesse, power and intelligent joy..." and of the the book, "Between Absolutes is an enjoyably rigorous and delightful book, by one of the finest young voices in the country."

Selections From Between Absolutes From Menace Green Fossil Empty Page Letter to Valentinius

On Steel Umbrellas "Sutherland's finest achievement so far has been to create the structure and form for his own poetic language. With Sutherland, the words are weighted and linked towards each other in a balanced and adjusted sense. Where the force of the telling does not fall on a single word or image, but rather on the impression of its components which drives the point of the poem home towards the heart of the reader. These poems are brimming with un-pinnable energy. Reading this newest collection is like looking into the sun. The impression is there, as is the wonder and the light. But to all this comes ultimately the sharpness of the image and the heat of language that makes for a fascinating combination which is both clear and challenging at the same time." --Paul Kloppenborg, from the introduction of Sutherland's forthcoming collection of poetry, Steel Umbrellas. Due to be published by Archer Books/Cadmus Editions in the Fall of '99.

Selections From Steel Umbrellas Half of Eden  Candlebox  Certain Chaldeans Horse Latitudes

New Verse Cypselae Mill of Mortar Billet-doux (love's token) Sounding Line Vox Hosanna Tierce la Umbra

Sutherland on the WWW Poetry Cafe Wordology Ariga AALBC BeeHive Ares Press Common Boundries San Francisco Salvo