A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, David Rowe was educated at Swarthmore College. His poems have appeared in the Cortland Review, the North American Review, Big Bridge, Dorado, Solid Quarter, Exquisite Corpse, YAWP, and in the anthology The Maple Leaf Rag. A poet accomplished on both the stage and the page, David has read his poetry on the Moe Green Poetry Show and on the radio station WWOZ, as well as at countless venues in the United States and abroad.
David helped represent New Orleans when Wave Books’ Poetry Bus Tour (2006) and S.A. Griffin’s Poetry Bomb Tour (2010) came to his hometown, he has served as poet-in-residence at Peter Anderson’s Beauty Shop, and currently he teaches poetry writing at the Covenant House, a shelter for homeless youths. His full-length collection, Unsolicited Poems,is available at http://www.vernapress.com.
Davis Rowe performed on September 15th, 2011.