Student Tribune
Visiting Poet David Rivard: Reading and Workshop
The Creative Arts Committee of MCC is pleased to announce that on Thursday,
October 18, visiting poet David Rivard will give a reading and book signing at
7:00 p.m. in the Warshof Conference Center, Monroe A. The event is free and
open to the public. On Friday, October 19, Rivard will conduct a poetry
workshop from 12-12:50 p.m. in building 8, room 200. The event is also free and
open to the MCC community.
David Rivard was born in 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts, and is the
author of six books of poetry: Standoff (2016), Otherwise Elsewhere
(2011), Sugartown (2006), Bewitched Playground (2000),
Wise Poison (1996), and Torque, winner of the 1987 Agnes Lynch
Starrett Poetry Prize. His poems and essays appear in the American Poetry
Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and other
magazines. In 2006, Rivard was awarded the Hardison Poetry Prize from the
Folger Shakespeare Library, in recognition of both his writing and teaching.
Among his other awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
A former Poetry Editor at The Harvard Review, Rivard lives in Cambridge,
with his wife and daughter, and teaches in the University of New Hampshire MFA
Program in Writing.
Leuzzi, Anthony
English/Philosophy
10/16/2018