Donald Platt’s ninth book of poetry, Tender Voyeur, will be published by Grid Books in the fall of 2025. His poems have appeared recently in The Atlantic, Barrow Street, The Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, Fence, Rattle, Five Points, The Adroit Journal, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Lana Turner, The New Criterion, The Nation, and The Yale Review, as well as The Best American Poetry 2025. He teaches poetry writing at Purdue University.
Poetry
Fall 2025
Vox Humana with Fire
The Kenyon Review · “Vox Humana with Fire” by Donald Platt All I’ve ever wantedis for the great pipe organ of the English language to keep playing its fanfares,preludes, hymns, […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
Setting Sun
If you looked at the setting sun on a November Sunday in 1944 from a tarred rooftop in New York City between the lines of washing hung out to dry […]
Poetry
Summer 2000
Contact Points
Contact occurs whenever two things touch, when the stripped wires are spliced together to complete a circuit, when your hand traces my collarbone on this hundred-degree day with an ice […]
