David Gewanter Explained

David Gewanter
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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 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080513031134/http://bostonreview.net/BR19.5/gewanter.html . May 13, 2008 .
• Book: In the Belly . University of Chicago Press. 1997. registration . David Gewanter. . 978-0-226-28873-4 .
• Book: The Sleep of Reason. University of Chicago Press. Fall 2003. 978-0-226-28973-1 .
• Book: War Bird . registration . University of Chicago Press. 2009. 9780226289786 .

Editor

• Book: Collected Poems. registration. Robert Lowell. Frank Bidart. Frank Bidart. David Gewanter . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003. 978-0-374-12617-9 .

Anthology

• Book: DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology . Sarah Browning . Michele Elliott . Danny Rose. The Argonne House Press . 2003. 978-1-887641-99-9 .

Ploughshares

• https://web.archive.org/web/20020719203620/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=3422 . Conduct of Our Loves . 2002-07-19. Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20020719204104/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=3423 . In the Belly . 2002-07-19. Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993.

Essay

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2000/October00/gewanter.htm
2. Web site: Read by Author | Ploughshares.
3. Web site: POET LAUREATE GRANTS FELLOWSHIPS TO POETS DAVID GEWANTER, CAMPBELL McGRATH AND HEATHER McHUGH . www.loc.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20030423181657/http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1998/98-158.html . 2003-04-23.