David Daniel

David Daniel is the award-winning author of Seven-Star Bird (Graywolf Press) and Ornaments (Pitt Poetry Series). He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he founded WAMFEST: The Words, Art, and Music Festival. He designed WAMFEST to break down barriers between the art most of us grow up being inspired by and the art of the academy—a project similar to this one—and it has included extraordinary collaborations between Bruce Springsteen and Robert Pinsky, C.D. Wright and Rosanne Cash, Talib Kweli and Quincy Troupe, Kristen Hersh and Tom Sleigh, among dozens of others. For fifteen years, he was the poetry editor of Ploughshares, and for several years Daniel was Core Faculty of the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Daniel lives in Belmont, Massachusetts. daviddanielpoetry.com