ABOUT
DS Waldman’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, and many other publications. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and recipient of Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Waldman teaches creative writing at Drew University. He’s at work on a novel.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Poems
“Calder” Poetry Society of America.
“Notebook Fragments” American Poetry Review
“Virga” Poetry Society of America.
“A Love Poem” Los Angeles Review of Books
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“You Asked About Longing” Kenyon Review.
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“Vivaldi in the Park” Narrative.
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“A Love Poem” Copper Nickel.
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Essays Interviews Misc. Prose
“Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and Verse” Lithub.
“A Poetics of Failure” LitHub.
“Getting Out of the Way: The Quiet Poem” Poetry Northwest.
“How Do You Know It’s Over?: A Roundtable on Poetic Closure” Mentor & Muse
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“For the World to Love Us Back: On CAConrad’s Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration.” Adroit
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“Breathing into the Divine: On Jessica Jacobs Ordinary Immanence" 32 Poems
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“Museum of Mirrors: On Wayne Miller’s We The Jury” Poetry International.
“A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin” Poetry International.
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Honors Awards Press
Winner Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America
Runner-up Poetry Society of America 2022 Chapbook Fellowship (Their Way With You, chosen by Kazim Ali)
Finalist Georgia Review’s 2021 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize (selected by Arthur Sze)
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Winner 2019 Foothill Editor’s Prize (selected by Ishion Hutchinson)
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This Spiral: John A. Nieves on D.S. Waldman’s “The Etiquette of Grief”
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CONTACT
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Poems
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“Likeness” The Atlantic.
“Notebook Fragments” American Poetry Review.
”Leaving the Party​” Boston Review.
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“A Love Poem” Los Angeles Review of Books. ​
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“Calder” Poetry Society of America.
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“The Köln Concert” ZYZZYVA.
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Essays Interviews Misc. Prose
”Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and Verse” Lithub.
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“A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths Between Words” LitHub.
“A Bell to Toll Me Back: When Poems Break the Fourth Wall” Denver Quarterly.
“Getting Out of the Way: The Quiet Poem” Poetry Northwest.
“On the Style of Tongo Eisen-Martin” Los Angeles Review.
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“For the World to Love Us Back: On CAConrad’s Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration.” Adroit
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“Breathing into the Divine: On Jessica Jacobs Ordinary Immanence" 32 Poems
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“Museum of Mirrors: On Wayne Miller’s We The Jury” Poetry International.
“A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin” Poetry International.
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Honors Awards Press
Winner Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (Calder, chosen by Jennifer Elise Foerster)
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Runner-up Poetry Society of America 2022 Chapbook Fellowship (Their Way With You, chosen by Kazim Ali)
Finalist Georgia Review’s 2021 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize (selected by Arthur Sze)
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Winner 2019 Foothill Editor’s Prize (selected by Ishion Hutchinson)
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This Spiral: John A. Nieves on D.S. Waldman’s “The Etiquette of Grief”
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