David Eric (D.E.) Navarro, author, poet, essayist and editor, is a poet-philosopher of the pure land school of haiku. He is also a clinical research medical writer and copy editor as well as a biblical research scholar and teacher. He moved to Tucson, Arizona in 2018 to finally settle down after 40 years of roaming around the globe. He holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies (emphasis on arts and humanities) with Purdue University, and has degrees in Communications and Theology.

His love of poetry and the writing arts started at age 8. A collection of his poetry was first published in the 1980 Winter Issue of the Purdue Exponent Literary Edition and many of his poems, essays, and articles have been published in various magazines, venues, and journals ever since, including the NY Literary Magazine, Miracle Magazine, Poetry Festival, and Better Than Starbucks; and in anthologies such as Between Life and Language, Ingram Publishing, 2009, The Black Rose of Winter, Lost Tower Publications, 2014, the Bukowski Erasure Anthology, Silver Birch Press, 2015, and Com-pen-di-um, CA Gallagher, 2016. He is author of 6 volumes of poetry, his latest being A Tree Frog's Eyes: Haiku, Blurb San Francisco, 2020.

He is Founder of NavWorks Press and the Pure Land School of Haiku, and originator of the online We Write Poetry forums where he teaches poetry and haiku and enjoys mentoring new poets and writers. He also did a series of in-person poetry workshops for the public library system in Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 2007-2010. He is very involved in a number of online poetry and haiku groups and communities on various social media.

Website: de-navarro.com

See my Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/David-E-Navarro/e/B00H55NBIQ/

Publications:
A Tree Frog's Eyes, 2020 (haiku)
In the Praise of His Glory, 2020 (poetry)
Archway to Beyond, 2019 (haibun)
Early Childhood Learning, 2019 (curriculum prep guide)
This is the Way, 2017 (essays and poetry)
Dropping Ants into Poems, 2016 (poetry)
Dare to Soar, 2013 (poetry)
Such Are the Poems, 2007, (poetry chapbook)

Anthologies:
The More I Forget, the More I Remember, 2023, All Poetry Publ. (1 poem)
Sandcutters, Arizona State Poetry Society, 2022 (1 poem)
Pangea Poetry: Bringing the World Back Together, 2021, Voracious Polyglots Publ. (6 poems)
No Day But Today, 2021, Next Level Publ. (2 poems)
Revision's End, 2021, All Poetry Publ. (1 poem)
A Poetry Garden, 2021, All Poetry Publ. (1 poem)
Tears, 2017, New York Literary Magazine Publications (1 poem)
Sometimes Anyway, 2017, Blurb Inc. and NavWorks Press (4 poems, 8 essays)
Compendium, 2016. Gallagher Publ. (5 poems)
Wrong!, 2014, Southern Star Publ. (1 short story)
Keeping It Weird, 2014, The Poetry Box Publ. (1 poem)
The Black Rose of Winter, 2014, Lost Tower Publ. (1 poem)
Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, 2014, Silver Birch Press (1 poem)
Between Life and Language, 2009, NavWorks Press & AH Publ. (5 poems)