David C. Ward

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David C. Ward is Senior Historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. He has curated exhibitions on Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Generals Grant and Lee as well as (with Jonathan D. Katz) 2010's controversial and award winning Hide/Seek. Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. He has also curated Poetic Likeness. Modern American Poets (2012-13) and Face Value. Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction (2014) at the NPG. He is currently working on exhibitions on 19th century photographer Alexander Gardner and contemporary fashion photographer Mario Testino.
With graduate degrees from Warwick University (England) and Yale, he is the author of Charles Willson Peale. Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic (2004) and has co-edited four volumes of the papers of Charles Willson Peale and his family.
In addition to his work at the Smithsonian, Ward is a poet and literary critic; a small selection of his poetry was published as Internal Difference (Lintott 2011) and Carcanet Press will publish a full collection, entitled Call Waiting, in August 2014. Ward writes the "Poetry Matters" blog for Smithsonian Magazine.

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New Poetries V: An Anthology 27-Oct-2011

by Michael Schmidt , Eleanor Crawforth

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For two decades New Poetries has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird, Stephen Burt, Sophie Hannah, Emma Jones, Nicole Krauss, Patrick McGuinness, Kei Miller, David Morley, Sinéad Morrissey, Togara Muzanenhamo, Matthew Welton and Jane Yeh. Published from Manchester, the anthologies overlook national borders, instead providing vistas across a worldscape.

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Call Waiting 01-Jul-2014

by David C. Ward

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David C. Ward's first full-length poetry collection combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observations of America - its landscapes, its history, its politics. Ward's poems are peopled by those who seem never quite able to inhabit their own lives, from Andy Warhol or Weldon Kees ('Case closed. / No body was ever found') to Ward's own father, playing poker against himself in the early hours. The book's final section turns an unflinching gaze on the post-9/11 USA and its self-deceptions.

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Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present 01-Oct-2013

by David C. Ward , Frank H. Goodyear III

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Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.

Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also includes historic poems by Ethel Lynn Beers, Ambrose Bierce, George H. Boker, Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

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