David Romtvedt, Associate Professor   

Contact Information

University of Wyoming, Casper College Center
125 College Drive
Casper, WY 82601

Office: Administration Building, room 9
Email:  romtvedt@uwyo.edu or romtvedt@wyoming.com

Educational Background

Fellow University of Texas Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
MFA, Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa
BA, American Studies, Reed College

Academic Positions

current - Associate Professor, University of Wyoming
former - Instructor in Contemporary African Literature at National University of Rwanda
 

Research Interests

I’ve done research on the work of contemporary Mexican poets as well as on the traditional musics of Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and the Basque Country.
 

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); Rincón Poético, translations of the Colombian poet Darío 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.