D.A. Powell was the seventeenth poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2011. Born in Albany, Georgia, D.A. Powell is the author of four poetry collections: Tea (1998); Lunch (2000); Cocktails (2004); and Chronic (2009), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Prize. Twice a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, he has received a Pushcart Prize and the California Book Award. His new collection, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys will be published in February 2012.