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University of Wyoming
David Romtvedt

David Romtvedt
Professor
poetry

BA Reed College 1972; MFA University of Iowa 1975
romtvedt@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-4269 • Hoyt Hall 412
Best Mode of Communication: E-mail

 

Poet Laureate of Wyoming. Numerous poetry collections, most recently Some Church (Milkweed Editions, 2005) and Certainty (White Pine, 1996). Fiction includes Free and Compulsory for All (Graywolf, 1984), Crossing Wyoming (White Pine, 1992) and A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know (Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA, 1992); nonfiction includes Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch (Red Crane Books, 1997). He also plays dance music of the Americas with The Fireants, which has produced two recordings: Bury My Clothes and Ants On Ice. He edited the anthology Wyoming Fence Lines that was published in 2007. He received the Wyoming Music Educators Association Distinguished Service to Music Education Award for 2007-08.  

 Published Works:

Some Church, (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming fall 2005)
Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch (Red Crane Books, Santa Fe, NM, 1997)
Certainty (White Pine, Fredonia, NY, 1996)
Buffalotarrak: An Anthology of the Basque People of Buffalo, Wyoming (Red Hills, Buffalo, WY, 1995)
Crossing Wyoming (White Pine, Fredonia, NY, 1992)
A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know (Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA, 1992)
How Many Horses (Ion Books, Memphis, TN, 1988)
Letters From Mexico (Kutenai Press, Missoula, MT, 1988)
Free and Compulsory for All (Graywolf, St. Paul, MN, 1984)
Moon (Bieler Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1984)
Anthologies, chapbooks, and other work: Urban Nature (Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 2000); My Bug (Artisan, New York, 1999); Horse People (Artisan, New York, 1998); The Gift of Tongues (Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA, 1996); Drive, They Said (Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1994); Atomic Ghost (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 1995); So the Wind Won't Blow it Away (Beacon Press, Boston, 1995); Yip: A Cowboy's Howl (Holocene Books, Spartanburg, SC, 1991); 80 on the 80's (Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland, OH, 1990); Hands, Joining (Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, WA, 1988); Black Beauty and Kiev, the Ukraine, a chapbook to benefit the Ground Zero Center for Non-Violent Action (Blue Begonia Press, Yakima, WA, 1987); Crossing the River: Poets of the Western United States (Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, NY, 1987); Loaf of Bread and a Bus Ticket Home (play produced 1982); Rincn Potico, translations of the Colombian poet Daro Jaramillo Agudelo (Pacific Inland, Iowa City, IA 1975); Writing from the World, translations from French, Portuguese and Spanish (University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 1976).
Individual poems, stories, and essays in: American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Canadian Forum, Georgia Review, Orion, Poetry East, Poets and Writers Magazine, Ploughshares, Northern Lights, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, Marxist Perspectives, Bloomsbury Review, Willow Springs, Cutbank, The Drunken Boat, and others.
 
Interests & Hobbies:
Long distance bicycling, calligraphy and book design, the button accordion. With the Fireants I perform Cajun, Zydeco and Latin American dance music. The Fireants have released two recordings--Bury My Clothes and Ants on Ice.

David Romvedt is a Core Faculty member.
 

Research Interests:
David Romtvedt is interested in the meaning in society of the terms low brow and high brow.

 

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