David Gewanter

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

• 1998 John C. Zacharis First Book Award for In the Belly
• 1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress ^[3]
• 2002 Whiting Award

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.
• The Sleep of Reason. University of Chicago Press. Fall 2003. ISBN 978-0-226-28973-1.

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, and 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. http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authordetails.cfm?prmauthoriD=540
3. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1998/98-158.html

External links

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