David Bergman (poet)

David Bergman (born 1950) is an [[American poetry|American poet and academic.

Life
Bergman was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts]], and grew up in New York City.

He graduated from Kenyon College (1972) and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1978).

Bergman is a professor of English at Towson University, in Towson, Maryland part of the University System of Maryland.

His poetry has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New Criterion, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and Raritan.

He is openly gay and Jewish.

Recognition
He received the George Elliston Poetry Prize for his work Cracking the Code. With Karl Woelz, he won a Lambda Book Award for editing Men on Men 2000.

Poetry

 * Cracking the Code Ohio State University Press, 1985
 * Heroic Measures Ohio State University Press, 1998
 * Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

Non-fiction

 * (Foreword in) Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists

Edited

 * (ed.) Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium Plume, 2000
 * (essay in) Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade
 * The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, Columbia University Press, 2004
 * (ed.) Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality University of Massachusetts Press, 1993
 * (ed.) The Burning Library: Essays (by Edmund White) Knopf, 1994
 * (ed.) Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-87 (by John Ashbery) Knopf, 1989
 * (essay in) Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon, 1996

Resources

 * His entry on Zoominfo.com