David Clewell

David Clewell (born 1955) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from University of Wisconsin and Washington University with an M.F.A. He teaches at Webster University.^[1]

His work has appeared Harper's,^[2] Poetry,^[3][4] The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review,^[5] The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee.

He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.^[6]

He is currently the poet laureate for the state of Missouri, serving until 2012.^[7]

Awards

• Pollak Poetry Prize for Now We're Getting Somewhere
• Lavan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
• 1989 National Poetry Series, for Blessings in Disguise

Works

• "from Jack Ruby's America", Word Virtual, 1999
• "The Accomplice", Counterbalance, April 9, 2007

• The Low End of Higher Things. University of Wisconsin Press. 2003. ISBN 9780299185749. http://books.google.com/books?id=Jx7YYIW_4yEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Clewell#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• The conspiracy quartet. Garlic Press. 1997. ISBN 9780964300927. 
• Jack Ruby's America. Garlic Press. 2000. ISBN 9780964300934. 
• Now We're Getting Somewhere. University of Wisconsin Press. 1994. ISBN 9780299144142. http://books.google.com/books?id=WkX4YxMh95wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Clewell#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Blessings in Disguise. Penguin Books. 1991. ISBN 9780140586725. 
• Room to Breathe. Pentagram Press. ISBN 9780915316304. 

Anthologies

• Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janeczko, ed (1999). "Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass It On". I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780689813412. http://books.google.com/books?id=LOX2CV7-Gv0C&pg=PA91&dq=David+Clewell#v=onepage&q=David%20Clewell&f=false. 
• Laure-Anne Bosselaar, ed (1999). Outsiders: poems about rebels, exiles, and renegades. Milkweed Editions. ISBN 9781571314093. 
• Billy Collins, ed (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 9780812968873. 
• Jack Elliott Myers Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, ed (2005). New American poets. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 9781567923025. 

References

1. ^ Webster University - English - Faculty
2. ^ Clewell, David (Harper's Magazine)
3. ^ August 1992 : Poetry Magazine
4. ^ March 2000 : Poetry Magazine
5. ^ TMR: David Clewell
6. ^ David Clewell | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
7. ^ Gov. Nixon appoints David Clewell Poet Laureate of Missouri

External links

• "DAVID CLEWELL", Poetry Dispatch, No. 263, December 31, 2008
• "Words That Matter: David Clewell", Playback, Kyle Beachy, 16 December 2005

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