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Name
  
David Clewell

Role
  
Poet

Awards
  
National Poetry Series


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Education
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis

Books
  
Taken Somehow By Surprise, The low end of higher thi, Now We're Getting Somewhere, Jack Ruby's America, Blessings in Disguise

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David Clewell (born 1955) is an American poet and creative writing instructor at Webster University. From 2010-2012, he served as the Poet Laureate of Missouri.

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David Clewell recites poetry at Missouri's Voices & Verses


Life

Clewell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1955. He graduated from University of Wisconsin with a B.A in English. In 1979, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri and earned an M.F.A. in writing from Washington University. In 1985, Clewell began teaching in the English Department at Webster University. A year later, he started the Webster University Visiting Writers Series, which he still coordinates.

As an instructor at Webster University, Clewell teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century literature, as well as poetry workshops and seminars. In 2010, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon noted that Clewell "has a unique perspective on contemporary American life and the characters and ideas that loom large in our recent history."

Clewell is the author of 7 poetry collections and his work has appeared in over 50 journals and magazines, including Harper's, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry seven times.

He was the poet laureate for the state of Missouri, serving until 2012. He passed the poetic torch to Will Trowbridge.

He lives in Webster Groves, Missouri with his wife Patricia.

Awards

  • Pollak Poetry Prize for Now We're Getting Somewhere
  • Lavan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
  • 1989 National Poetry Series, for Blessings in Disguise

    • Poems

  • "from Jack Ruby's America", Word Virtual, 1999
  • "The Accomplice", Counterbalance, April 9, 2007

    • Poetry Collections

  • Room to Breathe. Pentagram Press. 1976. ISBN 978-0-915316-30-4. 
  • Blessings in Disguise. Penguin Books. 1991. ISBN 978-0-14-058672-5. 
  • Now We're Getting Somewhere. University of Wisconsin Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-299-14414-2. 
  • The conspiracy quartet. Garlic Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9643009-2-7. 
  • Jack Ruby's America. Garlic Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-9643009-3-4. 
  • The Low End of Higher Things. University of Wisconsin Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-299-18574-9. 
  • Taken Somehow By Surprise. University of Wisconsin Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-299251-14-7. 

    • Anthologies

  • Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janeczko, eds. (1999). "Goodbye Note to Debbie Fuller: Pass It On". I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-689-81341-2. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Laure-Anne Bosselaar, ed. (1999). Outsiders: poems about rebels, exiles, and renegades. Milkweed Editions. ISBN 978-1-57131-409-3. 
  • Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3. 
  • Jack Elliott Myers Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, eds. (2005). New American poets. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-302-5. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

    • References

    David Clewell Wikipedia
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