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.

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

Essay

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