David Dephy

DAVID DEPHY -- The trilingual Georgian/American award-winning poet, novelist, multimedia artist. 

An active participant in the American and international poetry and artistic scenes, such as PEN World Voices, 92Y Poetry Center, Voices of Poetry, Brownstone Poets, The New York City Poetry Festival, Spectrum Reading Series, Long Island Poetry Listings, New York Public Library, Starr Bar Poetry Series, Poets in Nassau, Poets in Massachusetts, Columbia University – School of the Arts in the City of New York, Great Weather for Media in New York City, New York City Voices, Assiduous Dust, Bowery Poetry Club. His works have been published and anthologized in USA, UK and all over the world by the many literary magazines, journals, and publishing houses. He is an author of fifteen books of poetry, eight novels and five audio albums of poetry. His book-length works in English, a poetry Eastern Star, and A Double Meaning (with co-author Joshua Corwin) have been published in USA in October 2020 and August 2022 by Adelaide Books New York.

He was an artist-in-residence at the writer’s residency Ledig House in Ghent, New York and was invited to participate in the PEN World Voices festival in New York City, where he presented a live poetry event entitled “The Second Skin” with Laurie Anderson, Yusef Komunyakaa and Salman Rushdie at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Str Y.

David Dephy was exiled from his native country of Georgia in August of 2017 and was granted political asylum in the United States of America immediately and indefinitely.

Named as: A Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry, Stellar Poet by Voices of Poetry, Incomparable Poet by Statorec, A Brilliant Grace by Headline Poetry and Press, and An Extremally Unique Poetic Voice by Cultural Daily.

He lives and works in New York City.