English Professor to Receive Poetry Award

Dr. David Swerdlow, Westminster College professor of English, will receive an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience for "Apples, Fathers."

The annual award is given in April by The Taube Center for Jewish Life and the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Swerdlow, who has been with Westminster since 1990, earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and a master's and Ph.D. from Ohio University. He is the author of Small Holes in the Universe, a full-length collection of poetry; and Sonnets from a Broken Bowl and The Last Hill and the Wild Trees, chapbooks of poems. His poems have appeared in literary journals including The American Poetry Review and Poetry, and he is a two-time recipient of Pennsylvania Council for the Arts awards.

Contact Swerdlow at (724) 946-7345 or e-mail dswerdlw@westminster.edu for additional information. 

Dr. David Swerdlow