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.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares.
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
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
Editor
Anthology
Ploughshares
Essay
"Essay: The Problem of Originality", Smartish Pace
References
External links
"Interview with David Gewanter", Library of Congress
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets Georgetown University faculty