David Cappella
A poet and teacher, David Cappella is an associate professor in the English department at Central Connecticut State University. He is the co-author with Baron Wormser of
The Moves and of A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day to Day. In 2003, he was the resident teacher/poet for the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He is a former co-chairperson for the NCTE’s Commission on Poetry. He has presented workshops on the teaching of poetry in public schools in Connecticut and throughout the United States, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. His poems have appeared in
The Connecticut Review,
Diner,
The Bryant Literary Review,
The Bradford Review,
The Providence Journal and other journals. He is the winner of the 2004 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition for
Gobbo: A Solitaire’s Opera, the first poem of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was the featured poet, “a blue plate special,” in the Winter 2006 issue of
Diner. The complete manuscript of
Gobbo: A Solitaire’s Opera was a finalist for the 2006 Bordighera Prize and a 2008 finalist for The Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition.
Posted on December 30, 2008 6:20 AM
