David Biespiel

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Biespiel
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1964(1964-02-18)
Age	60
Birthplace	Tulsa
Country	United States
Birth City	Oklahoma
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Biespiel Biography

David Biespiel is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on February 18, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. A poet from Oklahoma, his collection includes Charming Gardeners, Wild Civility and Pilgrims and Beggars. He is also a prose writer. the author published a work in 2010 called Every Writer has A Thousand Faces.

He was greatly influenced by the work the poet He was influenced by the work of poet Walt Whitman..

David Biespiel has been called “a big thinker, a doer, and a hard-charging literary force”. Living in Boston in the early 1980s, Biespiel was one of the central figures of Glenville, a nexus of young activists, artists, educators, conservationists, musicians, and writers. He began publishing poems and essays in 1986 after moving to remote Brownsville, Vermont. From 1988 to 1993 he lived and wrote in Washington, D.C., and from 1993 to 1995 in San Francisco. He has lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1995.

Shattering Air: Published in 1996 when Biespiel was 32, Shattering Air is a book of autobiographical portraits composed in variegated blank verse. It was one of the last books published by the iconic American poetry editor and founder of BOA Editions, Al Poulin, Jr. “It is a test of the seamlessness of his art that David Biespiel so constantly finds the ‘ruminant undercurrents’ of his subjects without ever sacrificing their actuality,” Stanley Plumly wrote in his Introduction to the book. “And it is all the more remarkable in a first book that this undercurrent — what Wordsworth once called ‘the imminent soul in things’ — should so effectively supersede appearances. If this sounds a grand prescription, in Biespiel’s hands it is not.” Publishers Weekly characterized the debut collection as “sustained by a search for transcendent, intuitive truths”. From Chelsea: “Biespiel has a gift for transformation. He can make a command sound like an incantation. He can create psalm-like beauty from the repetition of a simple phrase. One must note the instances of raw brilliance.” A.V. Christie praised the book in The Journal for being “poems of quiet grandeur and nobility [that] bring to mind an out-of-the-self Keatsian sensibility”.

Biespiel’s brother is a gymnast who competes professionally and Biespiel himself was a participant at the U.S. Diving Championships.

David Biespiel Net Worth

David Biespiel is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Biespiel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Boston University, Stanford University and The University of Maryland. He published his first collection of poetry, Shattering Air, in 1996.

He was the founder of the Attic Institute as an Oregon literary group in 1999.

David Biespiel is an American poet, memoirist, and critic born in 1964 and raised in the Meyerland section of Houston, Texas. He is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, Oregon and Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University.

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In 2005 he was named editor of Poetry Northwest— one of the nation’s oldest magazines devoted exclusively to poetry. Appointed by the University of Washington, Biespiel moved the magazine’s offices to Portland, and is widely credited with reviving the magazine to national prominence. He served as editor until 2010.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Biespiel celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.

During 2008–2012 Biespiel was a regular contributor to The Politico’s Arena, a cross-party, cross-discipline daily conversation about politics and policy among current and former members of Congress, governors, mayors, political strategists and scholars that included Dean Baker, Gary Bauer, Paul Begala, Mary Frances Berry, Bill Bishop, Dinesh D’Souza, Melissa Harris-Perry, Stephen Hess, Celinda Lake, Thomas E. Mann, Mike McCurry, Aaron David Miller, Grover Norquist, Christine Pelosi, Diane Ravitch, Larry J. Sabato, Craig Shirley, Michael Steele, Fred Wertheimer, Darrell M. West, Christine Todd Whitman, and others.

Top Facts about David Biespiel

1. David Biespiel is an American poet, memoirist, and critic.
2. He has published 10 books of poetry and prose.
3. Biespiel is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.
4. He has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
5. Biespiel’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and more.
6. He was appointed Oregon’s Poet Laureate in 2016.
7. Biespiel teaches at Oregon State University and Pacific University.
8. His memoir “A Place of Exodus” explores his Jewish heritage.
9. Biespiel has received fellowships from NEA and Lannan Foundation.
10. He earned his MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park.