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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

Poems

Calder”   Poetry Society of America.


“Notebook Fragments”   American Poetry Review

“Virga”   Poetry Society of America. 
 

A Love Poem”   Los Angeles Review of Books

“You Asked About Longing”   Kenyon Review.

Vivaldi in the Park”    Narrative.  

A Love Poem”    Copper Nickel. 
 

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 

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

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)

Winner  2019 Foothill Editor’s Prize (selected by Ishion Hutchinson)

This Spiral: John A. Nieves on D.S. Waldman’s “The Etiquette of Grief”

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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Poems

Likeness”   The Atlantic. 

Notebook Fragments”   American Poetry Review. 

Leaving the Party”   Boston Review.

A Love Poem”   Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Calder”   Poetry Society of America. 

The Köln Concert”   ZYZZYVA.

Essays    Interviews    Misc. Prose

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and Verse”   Lithub.

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

Winner  Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (Calder, chosen by Jennifer Elise Foerster)

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”

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