POET

David Rivard (1953 - )

BIOGRAPHY

David Rivard was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1953. His collections of poetry include Torque (1988), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Wise Poison (1996), winner of the 1996 James Laughlin Award, Bewitched Playground (2000), and Sugartown (2005). He has also been a contributor to such publications as Ploughshares, The New England Review, and Poetry. His awards and honors include the Pushcart Prize, the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Rivard currently teaches at Tufts University and in the Vermont College M.F.A. Writing Program. He is also poetry editor for The Harvard Review.