David Wright Mailing Address: 925 N. Northwest Hwy Park Ridge, IL 60068 County: Cook. E-mail: david@dwpoet.com Phone: home: (847) 692-2173 work: (630) 752-5051 Genre: Poetry

Periodical Publications:

• "Sonnet in the Language of Dreams" and "I Would Fly to Italy" in Savoymag.net (Spring 2002).
• Three Poems, Dreamseeker Magazine (Winter 2002)
• "Like Streams Planted by Streams of Water." Christian Century, 12/19/01
• Four Poems, Mennonite Life (December 2001).
• "Silence" re:generation quarterly. Special Issue. 18 Sept. 2001.
• "Fidelities" and "Sunday Afternoon in the Universe" Gangway 21 (September 2001).
• "Making Confession" and "Making Lists" The Penwood Review. (Fall 2001).
• "Poems Should Not Be" Red River Review. (August 2001)
• "Children's Sermon" The Mennonite. (May 2001)
• "Swimming Lesson," "Church Janitor," and "Cloudburst" Rhubarb 7 (Spring 2001).
• "After the Signing of this Sunday's Scripture" re:generation quarterly 7.1 (March 2001).
• "Adagio for the Moon Above the Mississippi, August 1999" Karamu (Spring 2001).
• "For John" Prairie Poetry (May 2001).
• "Mouthfuls of God" 3rd Muse 1.4 (January 2001).
• "Wild Bird Feeder" and "American Gothic, Redux" 2 River View 5.2 (Winter 2000).
• "Dust and Power" Prairie Poetry (November 2000).
• "Quincy and Wells" and "Dining Alone" Thunder Sandwich (Winter 2000).
• "Holding the ends of summer tight" The Green Hills Literary Lantern (Summer 2000).
• "Holy Saturday, 1998" re:generation quarterly 6.2 (2000): 32.
• "Elegy #2, for David Erlanson" Sheridan Edwards Review (Spring 2000).
• "Lines on Retirement, After Reading Lear" Teaching English in the Two-Year College 27.4 (May 2000): 386.
• "Medium" and "Photographic Proof" in Rhubarb 2.1 (Winter 2000): 28.
• "A New Mennonite Replies to Julia Kasdorf" in The Mennonite 25 May 1999. 5.
• "Addison Street" and "Tonight" The Green Hills Literary Lantern (Spring 1997).
• "Taking Control of the World: The Idolatry of Doing Everything." Prism 1 (March 1994): 18-19.
• "Lenten Preludes" The Crucible (Spring 1993).
• "Ascents" The Galley Sail Review (Fall 1991).
• "Ninevah" The Rolling Coulter (Spring 1991).

Book Publications:

• Lines from the Provinces (self-published, 2000)

Forthcoming Publications:

• Two Poems, The Avatar Review (Summer 2002)
• "Chicken Scratches on the Back of Sunday's Bulletin" Mars Hill Review
• A Liturgy for Stones fall 2002, from Pandora Press

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Illinois Community College Board, Core Values Grant, "Telling Our Stories of Value," Academic Year 2000
• Awarded State Prize, Spring 2001.
• Scholar, Poets in Person, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Modern Poetry Society/American Library Assoc., Decatur Public Library, Decatur, IL. Fall 1997.

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Cincinnati, OH (Feb. 2002)
• Decatur Area Writers Fair, Decatur, IL (Fall 2001)
• Highway 51 Poetry Project, Decatur, IL (Jan. 2002)
• Pages for All Ages, Champaign, IL (April 2001)
• Focus 580, WILL-AM, Champaign, IL (April 2001)
• PWLF, Springfield, IL (Fall 2000)
• Books Between Bites, Friends of the Decatur Public Library

Recent Workshops:

• Telling Our Stories of Value" with Teena Zindel-McWilliams, Leadership and Core Values Institute: Best Practices Among Illinois Community Colleges. Springfield, IL. 31 Jan. 2001.
• "Holding Open the Wound: Poetry, Faith, and Healing." Redeemer College, Ancaster, Ontario. August 2000.
• "Teaching in Place: Some Values of Teaching Illinois Literature." Plenary presentation with Dan Guillory. Illinois English Articulation Conference. Allerton Conference Center, Monticello, IL. April 1997.
• RCC Creative Writing Camp, Decatur, IL, 1998.

Present Employment:

• Visiting Assistant Prof. of English, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL

Preferred Audience:

• College students, creative writing classes, community writing groups, church groups interested in literature

Willing to travel:

• yes, anywhere