David Gewanter

David Gewanter is an American poet.

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.

• 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

• "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.

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: The Problem of Originality", Smartish Pace