title: David Gewanter
text: # 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
  