David Rigsbee

Who is David Rigsbee?

David Rigsbee is an American poet, contributing editor and regular book reviewer for The Cortland Review, and literary critic. His most recent book, The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems will be available October 2010.

Rigsbee’s poems and reviews have been published in several leading journals including The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Ironwood, The Journal, The Marlboro Review, New Literary History, The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review. He has also been a featured poet on Verse Daily, The Cortland Review and The Adirondack Review. He is the 2010 winner of the Sam Ragan Award for his contribution to the arts in North Carolina. In addition to being named winner of the Pound Prize and the Vachel Lindsay Award, he has also received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Virginia Commission on the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets.