Full-Time Faculty

David McAleavey
Ph.D.  in English, Cornell University, 1975
MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell University, 1972

In poetry I'm about as focused on formal attentiveness and innovation as I am on discerning truth, thrilled when the sine-waves of these interests overlap and amplify into an audible freshness.  As a scholar and poet alert to the European and American avant-garde movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and having Language Writing to work with and against as I matured, I find it natural to expect links between the arts, and feel it important to attend to the ways various artists influence one another.  I have a growing interest in the relationship between American literature and other English-language national literatures, including the work of those with multiple or complex linguistic, ethnic, racial, and national identities. 

Books of poetry:

STERLING 403 (Ithaca House, 1971)
THE FORTY DAYS (Ithaca House, 1975)

SHRINE, SHELTER, CAVE (Ithaca House, 1980)
HOLDING OBSIDIAN (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1985)
DAVID McALEAVEY'S GREATEST HITS 1971-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001)
HUGE HAIKU (Chax Press, 2005)

Edited collections (with introductions):
EVIDENCE OF COMMUNITY: Writing from the Jenny McKean Moore Workshops at George Washington University (GW Washington Studies #11, Center for Washington Area Studies, GWU 1984)
WASHINGTON AND WASHINGTON WRITING (GW Washington Studies #12, Center for Washington Area Studies, GWU 1986)

Individual poems published in over 100 magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Epoch, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Tottle's .