David Rivard

David Rivard (born 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American poet.

His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly. David Rivard is Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review, and teaches at the University of New Hampshire, and the Vermont College M.F.A. in Writing Program. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Awards

• Two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation
• Fellowship the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
• Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America
• Pushcart Prize
• O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
• 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• 1996 James Laughlin Award for his second collection of poems Wise Poison
• 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• "Bewitched Playground". Poetry.
• "Fall River". Poetry.
• "Late?". Poetry.
• "Question for the Bride". Poetry.
• "Going". Poetry.
• "Zeus and Apollo". Poetry.
• "Torque". Poetry.

Ploughshares

• "Double Elegy, With Curse". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-08-24. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Somewhere Between a Row of Traffic Cones and the Country Once Called Burma". Ploughshares. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Bon Ton". Ploughshares. Winter 2003–04. Archived from the original on November 5, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "A Story About America". Ploughshares. Spring 1997. Archived from the original on August 20, 2006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Welcome, Fear". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on August 28, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "The Shy". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on February 17, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Little Wing". Ploughshares. Fall 1991. Archived from the original on May 13, 2006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Books

• Sugartown, (Graywolf Press, 2006)
• Bewitched Playground, (Graywolf Press, 2000)
• Wise Poison, (Graywolf Press, 1996)
• Torque (1987), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series.

Criticism

• "Oubliette by Peter Richards". Ploughshares. Spring 2002. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Day Moon by Jon Anderson". Ploughshares. Spring 2001. Archived from the original on May 25, 2006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler". Ploughshares. Fall 1996. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "Mercy Seat by Bruce Smith". Ploughshares. Winter 1994–95. Archived from the original on February 18, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine". Ploughshares. Fall 1993. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• "All of the Above by Dorothy Barresi". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–93. Archived from the original on November 4, 2007. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Reviews

To the extent that poems are all, implicitly or explicitly, narrations of a lyric impulse, they are untoward. They are about something, to paraphrase Allen Grossman, the way a cat is about a house. Each poem in Wise Poison passes through so many shifts of narrative direction that no usual sense of destination survives; rather, directional moves are replaced by an accumulation of patterns of change (changes in tense, changes in figuration, changes in overlay of image, curves of memory in cloverleaf). The very notion of passage (temporal, spatial, literary) is redirected by the mind into mind, the outgoing waves traced back to an in-house organ.

External links

• Jennifer S. Flescher (April 2006). "Finding Indirection: An Interview with David Rivard". AGNI online.