David Gewanter is an American poet.
Life He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young Gewanter, 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