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
Editor
Anthology
''Ploughshares''
Essay