David Romtvedt

David Romtvedt

David Romtvedt is an American poet.

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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

Works

  • 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

Essays

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. 

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