David Biespiel

Poet-in-Residence

School of Writing, Literature & Film

Moreland Hall 228
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Poet, critic, memoirist, novelist, and painter, David Biespiel is a contributing writer at American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry International, and Slate, among many other publications over the past forty years. His memoir, The Education of a Young Poet, was selected a Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers. The Book of Men and Women was chosen for Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation. Recognition for his writing includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, a Lannan Fellowship, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, two Oregon Book Awards, and he's twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award.

In 1999 he founded the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters; from 2000-2005 he was editor of Poetry Northwest; and from 2012-2019 he wrote the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus. In addition to teaching at Oregon State University, he has taught at Stanford, Maryland, George Washington, and Wake Forest universities, and at other institutions as a visiting writer.

David leads graduate poetry workshops with students enrolled in the graduate MFA program, works with students on completing their final thesis, and teaches select undergraduate poetry workshops, as well as literature courses.

Office Hours

Courses Taught

MFA Graduate Poetry Workshop

Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop

Intermediate Undergraduate Poetry Workshop

Illuminating Happiness

20th Century World Poetry