David Rivard

David Rivard (born 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American poet. He is the author of six books including Wise Poison, winner the 1996 James Laughlin Award, and Standoff, winner the 2017 PEN New England Award in Poetry. He is also a Professor of English Creative Writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of New Hampshire.

His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly.

• Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation
• Fellowship the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
• Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
• Pushcart Prize
• O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
• 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• 1996 James Laughlin Award for his second collection of poems Wise Poison
• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship

• "Bewitched Playground". Poetry.
• "Fall River". Poetry.
• "Late?". Poetry.
• "Question for the Bride". Poetry.
• "Going". Poetry.
• "Zeus and Apollo". Poetry.
• "Torque". Poetry.

Ploughshares[dead link]

• "Double Elegy, With Curse". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-08-24.
• "Somewhere Between a Row of Traffic Cones and the Country Once Called Burma". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Bon Ton". Ploughshares. Winter 2003–04. Archived from the original on November 5, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "A Story About America". Ploughshares. Spring 1997. Archived from the original on August 20, 2006. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Welcome, Fear". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on August 28, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "The Shy". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on February 17, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Little Wing". Ploughshares. Fall 1991. Archived from the original on May 13, 2006. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

Books

• Standoff, (Graywolf Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-55597-745-0
• Otherwise Elsewhere, (Graywolf Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-55597-573-9
• Sugartown, (Graywolf Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1-55597-435-0
• Bewitched Playground, (Graywolf Press, 2000) ISBN 978-1-55597-302-5
• Wise Poison, (Graywolf Press, 1996) ISBN 978-1-55597-247-9
• Torque (1987), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series.

Criticism

• "Oubliette by Peter Richards". Ploughshares. Spring 2002. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Day Moon by Jon Anderson". Ploughshares. Spring 2001. Archived from the original on May 25, 2006. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler". Ploughshares. Fall 1996. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "Mercy Seat by Bruce Smith". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine". Ploughshares. Fall 1993. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• "All of the Above by Dorothy Barresi". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–93. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)