
ABOUT
D.S. Waldman is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review, LitHub, Narrative, and other publications. Waldman has received additional support and awards from Middlebury College and San Diego State University, where he earned his MFA. He serves as poetry editor at Adroit.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Click the link, if there is one, to read work available online
Poems
“Virga” Poetry Society of America.
“You Asked About Longing” Kenyon Review.
“‘92 Volvo 240” Gulf Coast. (forthcoming)
“Nocturne with Aesthetic Crisis” Poetry Northwest. (forthcoming)
“Phosphenes” & “Vivaldi in the Park” Narrative.
“75-South” Witness.
“For a year” American Literary Review.
Three Poems Georgia Review.
Six Poems Conjunctions.
“Elegy” Missouri Review (Poem of the Week)
“After Modernism” Southern Humanities Review.
“Self-portrait as a Childhood Photograph of my Father” Cherry Tree.
“Decay” Gettysburg Review.
“Nocturne: Before Your Brother’s Funeral” Colorado Review.
“A Love Poem” Copper Nickel.
“Nocturne: Coronado Bay” Redivider.
“The Etiquette of Grief” 32 Poems.
“Premonition” & “Your last memory of family” Waxwing.
Three Poems Los Angeles Review.
“Decay” Nashville Review.
Two Poems The Common (online).
Essays Interviews Misc. Prose
“A Poetics of Failure” LitHub.
“Getting Out of the Way: The Quiet Poem” Poetry Northwest.
“For the World to Love Us Back: On CAConrad’s Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration.” Adroit
“Breathing into the Divine: On Jessica Jacobs Ordinary Immanence" 32 Poems
“Museum of Mirrors: On Wayne Miller’s We The Jury” Poetry International.
“A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin” Poetry International.
Honors Awards Press
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)
Winner 2019 Foothill Editor’s Prize (selected by Ishion Hutchinson)
This Spiral: John A. Nieves on D.S. Waldman’s “The Etiquette of Grief”
CONTACT
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Click the link, if there is one, to read work available online
Poems
“Virga” Poetry Society of America.
“You Asked About Longing” Kenyon Review.
“‘92 Volvo 240” Gulf Coast.
“Nocturne with Aesthetic Crisis” Poetry Northwest. (forthcoming)
“Phosphenes” & “Vivaldi in the Park” Narrative.
“A Love Poem” Copper Nickel.
Three Poems Georgia Review.
Six Poems Conjunctions.
“Elegy” Missouri Review (Poem of the Week)
“After Modernism” Southern Humanities Review.
“Self-portrait as a Childhood Photograph of my Father” Cherry Tree.
“Decay” Gettysburg Review.
“Nocturne: Before Your Brother’s Funeral” Colorado Review.
“For a year” American Literary Review.
“Nocturne: Coronado Bay” Redivider.
“The Etiquette of Grief” 32 Poems.
“Premonition” & “Your last memory of family” Waxwing.
Three Poems Los Angeles Review.
“Decay” Nashville Review.
Two Poems The Common (online).
Essays Interviews Misc. Prose
“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.
“For the World to Love Us Back: On CAConrad’s Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration.” Adroit
“Breathing into the Divine: On Jessica Jacobs Ordinary Immanence" 32 Poems
“Museum of Mirrors: On Wayne Miller’s We The Jury” Poetry International.
“A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin” Poetry International.
Honors Awards Press
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)
Winner 2019 Foothill Editor’s Prize (selected by Ishion Hutchinson)
This Spiral: John A. Nieves on D.S. Waldman’s “The Etiquette of Grief”