Daniel Lusk

Poet

Burlington, VT
Vermont US
Email: 
Daniel.Lusk@uvm.edu
Website: 
www.carraigbinn.com

Author's Bio

Daniel Lusk is author of eight poetry collections and other books, most recently Every Slow Thing (Kelsay Books 2022) and an e-book, Farthinge (Yavanika Press 2022). A former commentator on books for NPR, his work is widely published in literary journals and his genre-bending essay, “Bomb,” (New Letters) was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Native of the prairie Midwest, Daniel is a Senior Lecturer of English Emeritus at the University of Vermont.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House, 2005)
,
Onion River: Six Vermont Poets (Onion River, 1996)
Books:
The Vermeer Suite (Wind Ridge Books, 2015)
,
KIN (Wind Ridge Books, 2013)
,
Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain (Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2011)
,
Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems (Onion River, 1999)
Chapbook:
The Cow Wars (Nightshade Press, 1995)
Journals:
American Poetry Review
,
Appalachia
,
Beloit Poetry Journal
,
Chariton Review
,
Hayden's Ferry Review
,
Iowa Review
,
Kansas Quarterly
,
Laurel Review
,
New Letters
,
Nimrod
,
North American Review
,
North Dakota Quarterly
,
Off the Coast
,
Painted Bride Quarterly
,
Passages North
,
Pinch
,
Poetry
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Southern Poetry Review
,
Southern Review
,
The Comstock Review
Prizes won: 

Pushcart Prize 2016 for genre-bending essay "Bomb" (New Letters nomination); Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Nimrod International Journal 2006. Grants for poetry from Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Arts Endowment, University of Vermont, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop, Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Charles City, IA
Iowa
Raised in: 
Northern Iowa, IA
Iowa
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Last update: Oct 21, 2022