David Gewanter

David Gewanter
David Gewanter, is an American poet
Nationality	American
Genre	Poetry

David Gewanter is an American poet.

Life

He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young, and son James. ^[1]

His work has appeared in Ploughshares . ^[2]

Awards

• 1980: Hopwood Award, University of Michigan
• 1989: Eisner Prize, University of California, Berkeley
• 1990: Academy of American Poets Prize, University of California, Berkeley
• 1994: Levinson Award, Harvard University
• 1998: John C. Zacharis First Book Award for In the Belly
• 1999: Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress ^[3]
• 2002: Whiting Award
• 2003: James Laughlin Award - finalist for The Sleep of Reason
• 2004: Ambassador Book Award for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems
• 2004: Book of the Year for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems

Works

• "GAG"; "ENGLISH 1"; "SEE SAW"; "CONVULVOLUS, A LULLABY"; "CONDUCT OF OUR LOVES", Beltway Poetry Quarterly
• "Against the Grain", Slate
• "Traffic of Creations", Slate, July 23, 2002
• "Boy's Poem". Boston Review. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
• In the Belly . University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN   978-0-226-28873-4. David Gewanter.
• The Sleep of Reason. University of Chicago Press. Fall 2003. ISBN   978-0-226-28973-1.
• War Bird . University of Chicago Press. 2009. ISBN   9780226289786.

Editor

• Robert Lowell (2003). Frank Bidart; David Gewanter (eds.). Collected Poems . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   978-0-374-12617-9.

Anthology

• Sarah Browning; Michele Elliott; Danny Rose, eds. (2003). DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology. The Argonne House Press. ISBN   978-1-887641-99-9.

Ploughshares

• "Conduct of Our Loves". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.
• "In the Belly". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.

Essay

• "Essay: The Problem of Originality", Smartish Pace

References

1. Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
3. "POET LAUREATE GRANTS FELLOWSHIPS TO POETS DAVID GEWANTER, CAMPBELL McGRATH AND HEATHER McHUGH". www.loc.gov. Archived from the original on 2003-04-23.

External links

External audio
David Gewanter, The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series

• "Interview with David Gewanter", Library of Congress
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation