David Rigsbee is an American poet, contributing editor and regular book reviewer for The Cortland Review, and literary critic.
10 Facts About David Rigsbee
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David Rigsbee served on the faculty at University of Mount Olive.
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David Rigsbee has coedited two anthologies, including Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry, which was a 'notable book' selection of the American Library Association and the American Association of University Professors, and was featured on C-Span's Booknotes program.
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David Rigsbee's work has appeared in many journals, including AGNI, American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, the Iowa Review, the New Yorker, the Ohio Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, and the Southern Review.
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David Rigsbee served on the faculty at University of Mount Olive.
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Winner of a 2012 Pushcart Prize, the 2009 Black River Poetry Prize, the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award and the Pound Prize, David Rigsbee was 2010 winner of the Sam Ragan Award for contribution to the arts in North Carolina, as well as winner of the Oscar Young Award for the best book by a North Carolina author and the Black River Chapbook Poetry Prize for 2009.
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David Rigsbee has received two creative writing fellowships from the NEA, as well as fellowships from the NEH, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Virginia Commission on the Arts.
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David Rigsbee has received residencies from the Djerassi Foundation and Jentel Foundation.
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David Rigsbee was married to artist Jill Bullitt, the daughter of poet Carolyn Kizer, for eighteen years before they divorced.
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The Poetry Foundation [1] National Endowment for the Arts [2] Black Lawrence Press [3] David Rigsbee reads for The Cortland Review at AWP 2008 in New York.