David Rivard Explained

Birth Place:	Fall River, Massachusetts, US
Genre:	Poetry
Notableworks:	Wise Poison
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship
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David Rivard (born 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American poet. He is the author of seven books including Wise Poison, winner the 1996 James Laughlin Award, and Standoff, winner the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry.^[1] He is also a Professor of English Creative Writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of New Hampshire.^[2]

His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly.

Early life

Rivard was born in Fall River, Massachusetts and grew up in a blue-collar family of civil servants and dressmakers. His father was a fireman and his great-grandfather is the first Portuguese policeman in Fall River. He is the oldest of four.^[3]

Rivard holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona.^[4] He studied under Jon Anderson, Tess Gallagher, and Steve Orlen. Among his classmates were Tony Hoagland, David Wojahn, and Li-Young Lee.^[5]

Awards

• Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation
• Fellowship the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
• Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
• Pushcart Prize
• O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
• 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• 1996 James Laughlin Award for his second collection of poems Wise Poison
• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]

Works

• Poetry. Bewitched Playground. 24 April 2023.
• Poetry. Fall River. 25 April 2023.
• Poetry. Late?. 25 April 2023.
• Poetry. Question for the Bride. 25 April 2023.
• Poetry. Going. 25 April 2023.
• Poetry. Zeus and Apollo. 25 April 2023.
• Poetry. Torque. 29 February 2024.

Ploughshares

• Ploughshares . Spring 2006 . Double Elegy, With Curse . https://web.archive.org/web/20060824105243/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8436 . 2006-08-24 . dead .
• Ploughshares . Spring 2006 . Somewhere Between a Row of Traffic Cones and the Country Once Called Burma . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104034743/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=8457 . November 4, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Winter 2003–04 . Bon Ton . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071105024347/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7769 . November 5, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Spring 1997 . A Story About America . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060820031533/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=4233 . August 20, 2006 .
• Ploughshares . Winter 1994–95 . Welcome, Fear . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070828102956/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3759 . August 28, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Winter 1994–95 . The Shy . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070217204511/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3760 . February 17, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Fall 1991 . Little Wing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060513224838/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3125 . May 13, 2006 .

Books

• Some of You Will Know, (Arrowsmith Press, 2022)
• Standoff, (Graywolf Press, 2016)
• Otherwise Elsewhere, (Graywolf Press, 2010)
• Sugartown, (Graywolf Press, 2006)
• Bewitched Playground, (Graywolf Press, 2000)
• Wise Poison, (Graywolf Press, 1996)
• Torque (1987), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series.

Criticism

• Ploughshares . Spring 2002 . Oubliette by Peter Richards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060821022130/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7462 . August 21, 2006 .
• Ploughshares . Spring 2001 . Day Moon by Jon Anderson . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060525000919/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7072 . May 25, 2006 .
• Ploughshares . Fall 1996 . Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071028191924/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=4091 . October 28, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Winter 1994–95 . Mercy Seat by Bruce Smith . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070218094253/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3785 . February 18, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Fall 1993 . The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071028185521/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3554 . October 28, 2007 .
• Ploughshares . Winter 1992–93 . All of the Above by Dorothy Barresi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071104041554/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3452 . November 4, 2007 .

External links

• Finding Indirection: An Interview with David Rivard. https://archive.today/20121214112500/http://web.bu.edu/agni/interviews/online/2006/flescher.html. dead. 2012-12-14. Jennifer S. Flescher. AGNI Online. April 2006.

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Rivard . . 2020 . Poetry Foundation . July 6, 2020 .
2. Web site: David Rivard . . 2020 . University of New Hampshire . July 6, 2020.
3. Web site: David Rivard, Contributor Spotlight . Lee . Don . Don Lee (author) . Issue 72 . . 1997 . 2022-04-19 .
4. Web site: David Rivard . Lee . Don . www.poetryfoundation.org/poets . . 2022 . 2022-04-19 .
5. Web site: David Rivard, Contributor Spotlight . Lee . Don . Don Lee (author) . Issue 72 . . 1997 . 2022-04-19 .
6. Web site: 404. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2009-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235122/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12283-david-rivard. 2011-06-03. dead.