Portrait of David Gewanter

David Gewanter

David Gewanter is the author of In the Belly and The Sleep of Reason (both from University of Chicago Press) and co-editor, with Frank Bidart, of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Faber and Faber). His latest book, War Bird, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2009. Awards include a Hopwood Prize, Zacharis First Book Prize, Whiting Writer’s Fellowship, and Witter Bynner Fellowship. He was a finalist for the James Laughlin Prize, and his edition of Lowell won the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union and “Book of the Year” from Contemporary Poetry Review. He teaches at Georgetown University. (updated 12/2016)

AGNI has published the following work:

On Lowell

Essay by David Gewanter

Jacopone: The Scissors

Poetry by David Gewanter

Jacopone: On the Cobbles

Poetry by David Gewanter

The Competition

Poetry by David Gewanter

Leopard Man

Poetry by David Gewanter

An Interview with Thom Gunn

Conversation by David Gewanter and Thom Gunn

A Note on Thom Gunn’s “Lament”

Essay by David Gewanter

An Interview with Peter Dale Scott

Conversation by David Gewanter Translated by Peter Dale Scott

The Pardon

Poetry by David Gewanter

Letter in My Desk

Poetry by David Gewanter
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