Dan Alter
@arlozoroff.bsky.social
Poet translator father man of many trades - My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear 2022. Take A Breath, You're Getting Excited (translations) Ben Yehuda, 2024. Hills Full of Holes, Fernwood 2025.
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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
Dan Alter | Innerforestservice
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September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
September 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
When in doubt, I go to Paul Celan. Trans. Felstiner.
Another shadow sonnet in the gorgeous Rust & Moth
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[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 ...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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/
July 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
@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/...
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.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Beautiful feature of my work on the new journal Calul open.substack.com/pub/calul/p/...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social
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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...
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...
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
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May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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...
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...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A poem from my new book is on Verse Daily today! www.versedaily.org/2025/butterf...
AWP madness around the corner, right in the midst of the chaos!
March 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
AWP madness around the corner, right in the midst of the chaos!
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Collaborators with the fascists.
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Collaborators with the fascists.
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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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If voicemails are full, you can also email these staffers in Schumer's office:
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March 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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:
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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
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.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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
February 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Seamus Heany, translation of anonymous Irish lyric. His ear is unmatchable
Celan. Translated (exquisitely) Popov and McHugh. Whole worlds in a few words
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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?
February 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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
January 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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.
January 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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?
January 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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.
December 25, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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...
Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, and got it, and more after that, and …
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December 16, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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.
December 14, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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
December 8, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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
December 7, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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)
November 25, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Why and how Paul Celan's poems are so satisfying is a lovely mystery (trans Felstiner)