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Daniel Poppick

Daniel Poppick

Daniel Poppick is the author of The Police (Omnidawn, 2017). His recent work appears in the New Republic, BOMB Magazine, Granta, Bennington Review, and PEN Poetry Series. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he currently lives in Brooklyn where he coedits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib.

July/Aug 2018

Dumpster

By Daniel Poppick

In the new music I’ve discovered nudity. You don’t have to sing Or spell it out So much as see The difference between The air and the air, Money, chlorophyll […]

Spring 2012

Toward Being Of: Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather

By Daniel Poppick

“Disequilibrium,” the first poem in Chris Martin’s Becoming Weather, challenges the conventional wisdom that a fabled fair-and-balanced stillness is the default setting of the human world, one we artificially disrupt with thought and language, one we could return to if only everyone would drink a warm glass of milk and put on a Norah Jones album.

Daniel Poppick

Daniel Poppick lives in Iowa City, where he is a student in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, New American Writing, and Thermos. You […]