Dan Alter

Sonnet out! In the excellent @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social trampolinepoetry.bsky.social

two of my translations of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, wonderful medieval Hebrew poet from Islamic Spain
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Dan Alter | En•Trance Journal

I couldn’t be more delighted for another sonnet of mine to share a journal with these poets! www.entrancejournal.net/copy-of-sall...

Dan Alter — Small Orange

My elegy for Paul Celan, in a beautiful new issue of Small Orange smallorangejournal.com/dan-alter

[Is it just one accident strung] - Miracle Monocle Is it just one accident strung to another, body flung from courtsideledge, knees shredded. Body half butterfly three quarters gravel.Flipped downhill

So pleased to have two shadow sonnets in the new issue of @miraclemonocle.bsky.social miraclemonocle.com/articles/is-...

I’m so honored to have a shadow sonnet in the new issue of Inner Forest Service, alongside one of the finest arrays of poets I've ever been published with. www.innerforestservice.com/dan-alter

When in doubt, I go to Paul Celan. Trans. Felstiner.

[Where was God? I dead-man floated] | Rust & Moth Where was God? I dead-man floated in the deep end, staring at the nowhere of the bottom, sterile blue. Why was the skin on my mother’s fingers always scaly & breaking, as if with worry? Worry rustled ...

Another shadow sonnet in the gorgeous Rust & Moth
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@pinholepoetry.bsky.social Happy, in these difficult days, to have an elegy for a dear friend in the new issue of Pinhole!https://pinholepoetry.ca/11874-2/

God Looked Into the Torah and Created the World: Introducing the Poetry of Dan Alter No, I’m not going to write about ceasefires or foul-mouthed presidents.

Beautiful feature of my work on the new journal Calul open.substack.com/pub/calul/p/...

I mean the trope as used by politicians, to signal to their white base—not that it has anything to do with reality!

the city-country trope is pretty much a coded version of racism

Holy crap what a fantastic poem! Those off-rhymes on Shenandoah, kind of a drawl… resonates with Dickinson

The cover of issue 129 of the literary magazine Zyzzyva, founded in 1985.

Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social
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Another fabulous issue of one of our best journals

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

A poem from my new book is on Verse Daily today! www.versedaily.org/2025/butterf...

Marie Howe!

Those are both really interesting viewpoints, and both have the ring of truth!

Alas I think it’s up to all of us to stop him

Collaborators with the fascists.

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:

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these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

Hills Full of Holes Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides, Hills Full of Holes journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.

My new book just went on sale today!! www.fernwoodpress.com/.../03/07/hi... Thanks to so many who have helped this come to be, and especially Ross Belot for contributing the exquisite cover art

Seamus Heany, translation of anonymous Irish lyric. His ear is unmatchable

I know it’s bad, but I think it’s a little too soon to write off the future

that's what we do in bookstores. rashly, with no more room to fit the books or time to read them. for love.

Celan. Translated (exquisitely) Popov and McHugh. Whole worlds in a few words

Hey poets look what I found on the used books shelf - who’s read it?

Somehow, when I go back to Jack Gilbert I am never disappointed

I found this marvelous selection of the late great Gerald Stern. Poem after poem, a revelation.