Dr. David Swerdlow

Professor of English & Chair, Department of English and Public Relations

405 Thompson Clark Hall
Westminster College
New Wilmington, PA 16172
724 946-7345
dswerdlw@westminster.edu

DAVID SWERDLOW: AVAILABLE FOR POETRY READINGS

Courses

Poetry Workshop
Inter-American Literature
Postcolonial Literature
Contemporary Poetry
The Tragic Vision
Faulkner & Hemingway

Poetry and Scholarship

David Swerdlow is the author of two collections of poetry, Bodies on Earth (WordTech Editions, 2010) and Small Holes in the Universe (WordTech Editions, 2003). His poems and essays have appeared in many distinguished journals, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, West Branch and The Ohio Review. He is the recipient of several awards, including a an NEH Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts awards for his poetry, and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg award for poetry with a Jewish theme. As a Fulbright Professor of American literature, he taught at the Universidad de Piura in Peru. In the summers of 2005 and 2009, he traveled on the MV Explorer as a faculty member with Semester at Sea.

Useful links

Review of David Swerdlow's Small Holes in the Universe

David Swerdlow on VerseDaily

David Swerdlow on VerseDaily (again)

Being and Learning with Wayne Dodd (essay by David Swerdlow)