David Hernandez is the author of the forthcoming collection Hello I Must Be Going (Pitt Poetry Series, 2022). His other books include Dear, Sincerely (Pitt Poetry Series, 2016); Hoodwinked (Sarabande Books, 2011), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry; Always Danger (SIU Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series; and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). David has been awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Southern Review and The Best American Poetry. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.

Other poems by David Hernandez in Verse Daily:
December 4, 2021:   "Not a Bad World, Is It?" "Too bad I'm not an ocelot. Too bad I cannot be..."

Books by David Hernandez:

Other poems on the web by David Hernandez:
Five poems
Five poems
Three poems
Four poems
"Comment Thread in Response to '100 Best Flowers of the Year'"
"Fall All Leaves All Fall"
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking"
"The Soldier Inside the Horse"
"On Speaker"
"At the Post Office"

David Hernandez's Website.

About Hello I Must Be Going:

"I've read David Hernandez for twenty years, but only with this terrific new book am I realizing he is one of our generation's leading California poets. Whether philosophical, playful, or political, his language is guided by generosity and wonder. He explores the shifting landscapes and shifting cultural grounds underfoot. Beneath his laid-back West Coast charm, he lays bare the intensities of modern life. Hello I Must Be Going is a book of irreducible wisdom and witness."
—Terrance Hayes

"Between the hello and the going lies the shadow—and the poem. In this compelling new collection, David Hernandez writes poems that tumble forward so intensely they rattle our teeth, and others that are nearly frozen in anticipatory grief. This collection offers up the choices we contend with in an era of 'obliterating despair.' Fret or sleepwalk, or take the world in through the senses, taste the fruit, 'despite.'"
—Diane Seuss