Background
David Benedict Georg Kresh was born in 1940, in the Bronx, New New York He became interested in poetry after his father read regularly to him from Walt Whitman"s Leaves of Grass.
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David Kresh
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He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1961, with a degree in English.
Career
He also served as the reference specialist for poetry at the Library of Congress. Kresh was married three times, the last marriage lasting for twenty years before his death of prostate cancer at age 66. Kresh authored three poetry collections, including Turn Office or Use Opener, which was published posthumously in 2007, as well as the more minor works, Bloody Joy: Love Poems (1981) and Sketches After Pete"s Beer (1986).
He served for thirty-eight years at the Library of Congress, retiring in 2004.
Kresh served from 1995 until his death on September 26, 2006 as the Poet-in-Residence at Capitol Hill Day School in Washington, District of Columbia
