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DAVID ALLAN EVANS
Poet Laureate of South Dakota
Address: 2812 S Williams Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Phone: (605) 271-0466 (H) (605) 988-4486 (cell); e-mail: evanspl@brookings.net
Education:
B.A., English, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1962.
M.A. English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1964.
M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1976.
Employment:
Assistant Professor of English, Adams State College, 1966-68;
Assistant Professor of English to Professor of English/
Writer-In-Residence, South Dakota State University, 1968-Present.
Publications:
BOOKS (poetry collections):
Decent Dangers
Mellen Poetry Press, 2000.
Hanging Out With the Crows
Bk Mk Press,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1991.
Real and False Alarms
Bk Mk Press, 1985
Train Windows
Ohio University Press, 1976
Among Athletes (chapbook), Folder Editions, 1970
BOOKS (other):
Shortcut and other Stories (chapbook)
Sandhills Press, 2000
Remembering the Soos (memoir)
Plains Press, 1980
What the Tallgrass Says (Writer and General Editor)
Center for Western Studies, 1982
Double Happiness: Two Lives in China (journals, with
Jan Evans)
University of South Dakota Press, 1995
New Voices in American Poetry (editor)
Winthrop Publishers, 1973
POEMS, SHORT STORIES, AND ESSAYS: over 250 poems
published
or forthcoming in Southern Review, North American Review, Esquire,
Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Chariton Review, Prairie Schooner,
The New York Times, The Mid-America Poetry Review, South Dakota
Review, Witness, Kansas Quarterly, Aethlon: The Journal of Sports
Literature, and others. My poems, short stories, and essays have been
reprinted in over 60 anthologies and textbooks including HEARTLAND:
POETS OF THE MIDWEST, THE SPORTING LIFE, SPLASH!: GREAT
WRITING ABOUT SWIMMING, AMERICAN SPORTS POEMS, IMAGINING
HOME: WRITING ABOUT THE MIDWEST MIDWEST, THE NORTON
BOOK OF SPORTS, BEST POEMS OF 1969 (Borestone Awards), and others.
Readings, lectures, and workshops:
at over 70 schools, universities, bookstores, and literary conferences,
including Southwest Minnesota State University, Moorhead State
University, Gustavus Adolphus, The University of Minnesota, The
University of Nebraska, The University of North Dakota, Manchester
Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.
Honors and Awards:
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar, 1972; National Endowment
for the Arts grant, 1975; 1976; Bush Artist Fellowship, 1990; Pushcart
Prize nomination, 1994; Fulbright Scholar to China, 1992-93 and 1999;
WHO’S WHO IN THE MIDWEST, WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA; appointed
Poet Laureate of South Dakota by the governor in June, 2002.