Daniel Khalastchi is the author of two books of poetry, Manoleria (Tupelo Press, 2011) and Tradition (McSweeney’s, 2015). A former fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, his poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, jubilat, Ninth Letter, Thermos, and 1913: A Journal of Forms. Daniel currently lives in Iowa City where he is the Associate Director of the University of Iowa’s Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. He is also the co-founder and managing editor of Rescue Press.
Fall 2009
The Maturation Of Man: I Wait, There is Chatter:
The Maturation Of Man: Because rain. Because hard. Because pain in my ribs, because buckle and wait. Because cramping. Because kneeling low. Because pause. Because fact. Because wings unreel the flat spread of my stomach. Because feathers. Because damp. Because red, […]