He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young, and son James.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares.
Awards
1980 Hopwood Award University of Michigan
1989 Eisner Prize University of California, Berkeley
1990 Academy of American Poets Prize University of California, Berkeley
1994 Levinson Award Harvard University
1998 John C. Zacharis First Book Award for In the Belly
1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress
2002 Whiting Award
2003 James Laughlin Award--finalist for The Sleep of Reason
2004 Ambassador Book Award for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems
2004 "Book of the Year" for Robert Lowell: Collected Poems
Works
"GAG"; "ENGLISH 1"; "SEE SAW"; "CONVULVOLUS, A LULLABY"; "CONDUCT OF OUR LOVES", Beltway Poetry Quarterly
"Against the Grain", Slate
"Traffic of Creations", Slate, July 23, 2002
"Boy's Poem". Boston Review. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
In the Belly. University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-226-28873-4.
The Sleep of Reason. University of Chicago Press. Fall 2003. ISBN 978-0-226-28973-1.
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Editor
Robert Lowell (2003). Frank Bidart, David Gewanter, eds. Collected Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-12617-9.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Anthology
Sarah Browning, Michele Elliott, and Danny Rose, eds. (2003). DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology. The Argonne House Press. ISBN 978-1-887641-99-9.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Ploughshares
"Conduct of Our Loves". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.
"In the Belly". Ploughshares. Winter 1992–1993. Archived from the original on 2002-07-19.
Essay
"Essay: The Problem of Originality", Smartish Pace
