David Rivard

David Rivard (author page at Amazon) is the author of five books: Otherwise, Elsewhere (Graywolf Press, 2011), Sugartown (Graywolf, 2006),  Bewitched Playground (Graywolf, 2000), Wise Poison (Graywolf, 1996), the 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 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His poems and essays appear in American Poetry Review, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and other magazines. Among his awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Arts Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as two Pushcart Prizes. A former poetry editor at Harvard Review, he teaches at the University of New Hampshire MFA in Writing Program. (updated 1/2011)

AGNI has published the following work by David Rivard:

•And Continuing
•Ariadne
•Arrival Song
•The Debt
•Drafts of “Question for the Director of Recycling”
•Firestone
•Firestone
•In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935-2009
•A Note on Stephen Berg’s Rimbaud: “. . . still unilluminated I . . .”
•Question for the Director of Recycling
•Question for the Magic Hour
•Real Thing Strange
•The Road Out
•Townie Gossip (Since You Asked)
•Versace