David Gewanter
# 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
* "Boy's Poem". Boston Review. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
* In the Belly. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-28873-4. David Gewanter.
* The Sleep of Reason. University of Chicago Press. Fall 2003. ISBN 978-0-226-28973-1.
* War Bird. University of Chicago Press. 2009. ISBN 9780226289786.

### Editor

* Robert Lowell (2003). Frank Bidart; David Gewanter (eds.). Collected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-12617-9.

### Anthology

* Sarah Browning; Michele Elliott; Danny Rose, eds. (2003). DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology. The Argonne House Press. ISBN 978-1-887641-99-9.

### Ploughshares

* "Conduct of Our Loves". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.
* "In the Belly". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.

## Essay

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