Visiting Writer David Rivard Reads His Poetry, Feb. 26

The Creative Writing Program presents its third visiting writer of the 2014-15 academic year, David Rivard, reading from his work on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. A book signing and reception follow.

David Rivard

Rivard is the author of five books of poetry: Otherwise Elsewhere, Sugartown, Bewitched Playground, Wise Poison (winner of the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and Torque (winner of the 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize). His poems and essays appear in the American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and other magazines. In 2006, Rivard was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, in recognition of both his writing and teaching.

Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Civitella Ranieri, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A former Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review, Rivard lives in Cambridge, with his wife and daughter, and teaches in the University of New Hampshire MFA Program in Writing.

See an interview with Rivard here.