Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and occasional novelist, whose most recent books include gentlessness (Tupelo Press) and Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs (Omnidawn). His work has been supported by the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, and he teaches in the MFA program at Colorado State University.
Poetry
July/Aug 2020
Canto IV (Fragment Braid)
] clouds in the head [ . . . kept formulating for myself the proper ambition . . . dig a pitkin in the dirt and pour the blood in […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2020
Canto IX
— for Jorie Graham To read is to know again or to read is to return to knowing but knowing is not the ordered stacks in the library mind is what […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2020
Canto X
I am the place that is me I points at the ground where once I laid down where Jacob was and isn’t, is and wasn’t, a snowman and Abraham sits […]
The Longer Lyric
Nov/Dec 2016
A Century of Meditation
That if I knew how, would I —. In singing, not to sing —. Build the thing, or don’t —. God as if God weren’t there —. Prayer as remote […]
Poetry
Winter 2013
Primer
preface this book is a learning mist in which the hand discovers the thistle it grips— some texts are forms of trespass's expectations— the burr on the cuff a wandering […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2010
Ten Meditations in Poetry’s Hut
1. Let’s begin with a basic claim, not as truth or fact, but as possibility: reading is a form of experience. Hands hold the book’s heft; eyes read the words; […]
Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and occasional novelist, whose most recent books include gentlessness (Tupelo Press) and Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs (Omnidawn). His work has been […]