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.

Another shadow sonnet in the gorgeous Rust & Moth rustandmoth.com/work/where-w...

@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/

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

Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @mpalaia.bsky.social @fetaplace.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social @kimsamek.bsky.social @gregoryspatz.bsky.social

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!

AWP madness around the corner, right in the midst of the chaos!

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

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

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.

How can you not love this poem by Paul Goodman?

Celan - from the wonderful translations of McHugh and Popov. The Wreck of the Solstice seems apt.

This is haunting- it’s Rebecca Solnit’s piece about the orange menace from his first tour. Much is still devastatingly relevant. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...

Merwin at the end, blind, dictating to his wife.

Bada Shanren, from the wonderful book of translations by Arthur Sze, The Silk Dragon II. From the late 17th century. So airy and contemporary

Milosz. I'm finally beginning to understand the depth of his work

Why and how Paul Celan's poems are so satisfying is a lovely mystery (trans Felstiner)

Defeated this time. www.bendthearc.us/hr9495_win

Um, wow. How's this for a warning shot? "Last night, the House of Representatives voted on H.R. 9495 —bill that would have given Trump the power to investigate and effectively shut down any tax-exempt organization based on a unilateral accusation of wrongdoing — without any explanation required.

hey bluesky just got a lot busier! Did something happen last week? 😱

It's out! The bilingual edition of Yakir Ben Moshe's wild, funny & deep whirlwind tour of single life from Ben Yehuda Press or the online vendor which shall not be named. www.benyehudapress.com/books/take-a...

After 7 years, a translation project coming to fruition: translations of a wild and delightful book of Hebrew poems.

I’ve been reading Tomas Transtromer again. His movement is so supple and rapid, it can be thrilling. Translated by Bly - always something a bit awkward but still one of my favorite translators

Two of my translations of Shlomo Ibn Gabirol, one of the greatest of the Hebrew poets of Al-Andalus. exchanges.uiowa.edu/ancient/issu...

Galway Kinnell, exquisitely

Every time I go back to James Schuyler he astonishes me with his delicate beauty

New poem up at the lovely Dodge: www.thedodgemag.com/danalter1

My mom passed away couple of weeks ago. Paul Celan - consolation of ineffable beauty. John Felstiner translated

I recently started working at the Magnes Collection. The other day I saw a newly acquired Haggadah from Metz, 1757. Designed like Talmud with core text and commentaries. Wine stains. Gives me the chills

What a thrill it is to have a poem of mine featured on The Slowdown today! Gratitude to Major Jackson for selecting it, and to the otherworldly Community of Writers where it was composed www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

Invisibility everywhere you look! A new poem of mine @ InvisibleCity www.invisiblecitylit.com/poetry/with-...

Because photos of poetry events are so dramatic, here I am saying something insightful during "Working Class Jews: A Poetics of American Assimilation," #AWP24

Celan. The harder things are the more reassuring he is for me. Trans. Felstiner

Here's a thing: as I peruse people's profiles, looking for fellow writers, I notice that poets identify as poets and fiction writers seem to just identify as "writers." what's that about?

I’m ever in wonder at how WS Merwin wrote the most important subtle and complex things with such transparency

Anyone else have a New Yorker submission that's still "Received" after 13+months?

Truly honored to have my translation of Yehuda Halevi's great passionate ode featured in the Winter edition of the Jewish Review of Books! jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-histo...

Yannis Ritsos translated by David Harsent so cinematic

Went back to look at Robert Bly tonight - there was always something so awkward and touching about him. This is from The Man in the Black Coat Turns

Marina Tsvetaeva - now that’s love. Amazing translations by Valentine/Kaminsky- “a blizzard of oaks”!

Eileen Myles makes it looks so effortless

Two more of my translations of Yehuda Halevi from 900 years ago... www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/01...