David Romtvedt

David Romtvedt is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Reed College,^[1] and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches at University of Wyoming.^[2] He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming,^[3] with his wife, the potter Margo Brown.

His work appears in The Sun Magazine,^[4] Prairie Schooner,^[5] Missouri Review,^[6]

He is a founder and current board member of Worlds of Music.^[7] Romtvedt plays button accordion with the band, The Fireants. They have recorded three CDs, Bury my Clothes, Ants on Ice and It's Hot. The band plays Latin and Cajun/Zydeco music as well as original music that David Romtvedt has written.

Awards

• 1991 National Poetry Series, for A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know
• Pushcart Prize
• two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
• Wyoming Arts Council literature fellowship
• Wyoming Governor's Arts Award.

Works

• "Who Owes Us". Ploughshares. Winter 1994-95. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3761. ^{[dead link]}
• "Once Strangers on a Train". Ploughshares. Winter 2004-05. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8114. ^{[dead link]}
• "Cheap Fiction". Ploughshares. Winter 2004-05. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=8357. ^{[dead link]}

• Some Church. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions. 2005. ISBN 1571314229. 
• Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch. Santa Fe, NM: Red Crane Books. 1997. ISBN 1878610627. 
• Certainty: Poems. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press. 1996. ISBN 1877727598. 
• A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know: Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 1992. ISBN 1556590466. 
• Crossing Wyoming. Fredonia, New York: White Pine Press. 1992. ISBN 9781877727238. http://books.google.com/?id=jePgvysXwyMC&dq=David+Romtvedt&printsec=frontcover&q=. 
• Yip, a Cowboy's Howl. Spartanburg, SC: Holocene Books. 1991. 
• Letters from Mexico (1988). Missoula, MT: Kutenai Press. ISBN: (?). Co-author Pat Weyer.
• How Many Horses. Memphis, TN: Ion Books. 1988. ISBN 093850715X. 
• Moon: Poems (1984). St. Paul, MN: Bieler Press. ISBN 0931460166. Illustrated by R W Scholes.
• Free and Compulsory for All: Tales. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press. 1984. ISBN 0915308509. 

Anthologies

• John Bradley, ed (1995). "Eating Dinner at My Sister's". Atomic ghost: poets respond to the nuclear age. Coffee House Press. ISBN 9781566890274. http://books.google.com/?id=Gr9xxPfL14IC&pg=PA181&dq=David+Romtvedt#v=onepage&q=David%20Romtvedt. 
• Sam Hamill, ed (1996). The gift of tongues: twenty-five years of poetry from Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 9781556591167. 

Essays

• "Red Politics And Blue In Wyoming", The Sun Magazine, June 2006

Editor

• Dollie Iberlin, David Romtvedt, ed (1995). Buffalotarrak: An anthology of the Basque people of Buffalo, Wyoming. Buffalo, WY: Red Hills Publications. ISBN 0963375512. 
• Michael Shay, David Romtvedt, Linn Rounds, ed (2003). Deep West: A literary tour of Wyoming. Greybull, WY: Pronghorn Press. ISBN 0971472572. 
• David Romtvedt, ed (2007). Wyoming Fence Lines. Wyoming Humanities Council. ISBN 9780978982911. 

References

1. ^ http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/spring2007/features/what_would_say/romtvedt.html
2. ^ http://www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting/displayfaculty.asp?facultyid=3948
3. ^ http://www.pw.org/content/david_romtvedt_1
4. ^ http://www.thesunmagazine.org/author/1822
5. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v078/78.4romtvedt.html
6. ^ http://www.missourireview.com/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=1240
7. ^ http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/David+Romtvedt

External links

• "An E-view with David Romtvedt", Drunken boat
• "Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch by David Romtvedt", Wind Works

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