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Jeffrey McDaniel

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About Me

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of 4 books of poetry, most recently The Endarkenment from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His previous three books are The Splinter Factory (2002); The Forgiveness Parade (1998); and Alibi School (1995). Individual poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other literary magazines and anthologies. He recently moved from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley with his wife, Christine Caballero, and their daughter, Camilla Wren.

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Member Since: 8/19/2006
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My Blog

book party this saturday

The book party for The Endarkenment is this weekend, on Saturday May 24th at 6 pm at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery b/w Bleeker and Houston). Joan As Policewoman will be doing a solo set. Joan is ...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:43:00 PST

the endarkenment arrives

I got my new book in the mail two days ago. I haven't felt a new book in my hands for 6 years. I'm happy with the way it looks and feels. I love the cover art, an illustration by Bill Adams. I'm doing...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

Compulsively Allergic to the Truth

A poem of mine just appeared in this Poem-A-Day thing on www.poets.org Here's the link: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20059My new book, The Endarkenment, comes out in a few weeks. It will be ...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST

musings

Let’s see. What’s new? Not a whole bunch. My new book will be out in a little over a month. I’m very excited about the book party because Joan As Policewoman will be playing a solo s...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:26:00 PST

tongue vs. tongue

So I have to send in the final draft of my manuscript, and I'm wrestling with a few things, including two versions of a poem. I paste both versions here. New Word for TongueTongue is the wrong word fo...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:07:00 PST

random & M(atheism)

Let's see. New stuff. 1. I have a show in New York that I am very excited about on Wednesday October 24th. I am reading in a series called Mixer at a place called the Cake Shop on the Lower East Side....
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:36:00 PST

update

The summer is almost over, but I can't see the end. I am in denial, trying to get as much writing done as I can before September, when work kicks back up. I was going to say "before reality kicks in",...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:17:00 PST

poetry animation video reviewed in Guardian

The poetry/animation collaboration with Nick Fox-Gieg for The Foxhole Manifesto has apparently been seen by 88,000 people on YouTube. That kind of boggles my mind. Apparently it was featured in their ...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:01:00 PST

The Quicksand Hourglass

This poem originally appeared in the Los Angeles Review and was recently re-printed in the anthology, Spoken Word Revolution Redux. In some ways, it feels like a companion poem to a piece I posted ear...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:47:00 PST

the Jeffrey McDaniel pharmacy

On April 4th, I received a comment from Mia-Valentina (aka Lush), saying that my poems were useful for treating PMS and migraines. I jokingly wrote back that I would open a drugstore and read poems to...
Posted by Jeffrey McDaniel on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:34:00 PST