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Donald Platt

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

By Donald Platt

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

By Donald Platt

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

By Donald Platt

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 […]