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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

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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. â€‹

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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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