David Daniel is the author of What Love Is: Book One (Nirala, 2024), a collection of poems in graphic form, illustrated by George Cochrane, and the poetry collections Ornaments (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), The Quick and the Dead (Haw River, 1992), and Seven-Star Bird (Graywolf Press, 2003), reviewed here at AGNI Online, which led Harold Bloom to call him “an authentic heir to Hart Crane.” The collection won the Larry Levis Prize for the best first or second book of the year. His poems and essays have appeared in A Field Guide to Prose Poetry, AGNI, The Library of America’s Anthology of American Religious Poetry, Connotation Press, The American Poetry Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. Daniel was poetry editor of Ploughshares for more than a decade while teaching at Emerson College. He currently directs the undergraduate Creative Writing Program and the Creative Writing and Literature for Educators MA Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he founded WAMFEST: The Words, Art, and Music Festival which has included Bruce Springsteen, Mark Morris, Robert Pinsky, Paul Muldoon, Talib Kweli, Rosanne Cash, Exene Cervenka, Quincy Troupe, John Doe, Tom Sleigh, Kristin Hersh, Josh Ritter, Peter Carey, Wesley Stace, Alejandro Escovedo, and many others. Wamfest has been celebrated for its progressive arts programming by the National Endowment for the Arts. Its blog is at wamfest.wordpress.com. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts. (updated 10/2024)