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English: Readings and Lectures: David Biespiel
David Biespiel is Director and Writer-in-Residence of The Attic Writers’ Workshop in Portland, Oregon, and also teaches at Oregon State University. His volumes of poetry include Shattering Air, Pilgrims & Beggars, and, forthcoming, Wild Civility. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship & the Stegner Fellowship.
Biespiel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964 and grew up in Houston, Texas. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Maryland. A former NCAA scholarship diver who competed in the United States National Diving Championships, he continues to coach national, international and Olympic-caliber divers. He also has been a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Individual Artist Award in Poetry from the Maryland Arts Council.
View video of David Biespiel reading "Hallucination: Mushrooms"
“Like microprocessors, the poems in Wild Civility deliver an almost incalculable amount of information instantaneously. As a result, they demonstrate the pure and powerful recombinant energy of language that is the essence of lyric poetry.” – Michael Collier, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
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