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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’ll be giving a poetry reading at Paul Sawyier Public Library in Frankfort, Kentucky on Sunday June 14th at 1pm — if you are in the area, come join me!

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On 3/26, Donna Vorreyer’s series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey features Holli Carrell, jason b crawford, Daniel Lassell, Robbi Nester & Jane Zwart! 6:30CT/7:30ET.🌟📚🍯 Link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @hollicarrell.bsky.social @dlassell.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I love this! Book of Drought was among my favorites published that year!

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This is so great! I loved seeing you read! ✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yay!! This makes me so happy! Excited to see you!

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Poets' Dinner is returning to AWP! Don't eat alone. Join us! Info here: fb.me/26rtyMi66pX2...

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

That is correct — Kentucky poet here, living in Indiana. Published with MSU Press. I believe Diane Seuss is a Michigan poet? jason b crawford grew up in Michigan

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Yes, he has a lot! The one that I found interesting was his Art of the Poetic Line. While I didn’t agree with everything in the book, it was a great read to widen your perspective of what poetic lines can do

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

That’s a great list! I also found the craft books by Louise Gluck, Ted Kooser, Mark Doty and James Longenbach helpful. There’s also an essay that Carmen Giminez published many years ago (I think it was on Lithub or the Poetry Foundation?) about revision that was formative in my craft

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Subscribe to Ethel for 2026! www.ethelzine.com/shop/ethel-2...

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Enjoying a snowy #smallpoemsunday with this piece by @dlassell.bsky.social's Frame Inside a Frame. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

EDGE MARKERS

-Kentucky, 2004

The llamas clump against fence wire, staring toward three deer eating nearby crabapples, as if considering what god made their bodies so similar, so elsewhere.

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It was so wonderful to meet you in person! Big fan of your poetry — I wish we could have talked more as well! It was a busy and talkative day for sure!

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Thank you so very much! I absolutely loved reading this review! 🙏

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Wow, wow, wow! Susan, this is such a beautifully written review of my book! You’ve captured its essence and intent so wonderfully—thank you so, so much! 🤩✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thrilled to have a new poem out in the newest issue of Sixth Finch! ✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Thank you so much, Donna!! It was amazing to meet you! 🙏✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It was so wonderful to meet you as well! 🙏✨

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Find me places in September and beyond! www.daniel-lassell.com/events

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Siken is such a titan in modern American poetics—approaching him about a blurb seemed, far-and-away, a longshot for me. But I’m glad I asked. Shortly after sending him an email, he responded to me with such sincerity. And I am so incredibly honored with these gracious words he shared about my book

“Daniel Lassell is a master of subtraction, of what he calls a loosening joy. The poems here are filled with song, prayer, and silence. Restless and reflective, they shift and rub against the natural world, its vastness and its granularity, with striking precision and clarity. Here, a world accumulates even as it is undone—wreckage and reverence inexorably intertwined.”
—Richard Siken, author of I Do Know Some Things, War of the Foxes, and Crush

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Siken’s prose poems are keenly crafted, expertly honed. And the thematic weaving and narrative arc of this new collection! It is his best book yet. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

When I encountered poems from his third book, I Do Know Some Things, I was delighted that they were these incredible prose poems! A poetry form I so strongly advocate for, that has shaped and reshaped my own development as a poet. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Plus, there was Siken’s commitment to poetry as an artform beyond his own, establishing Spork Press and Sporklet to publish other poets. And then there’s his beautiful paintings! [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I revisited his books after Spit came out, and I considered and reconsidered what my Art had progressed into, informed by Richard Siken’s attention to form, to voice, and to image. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The attention to each book as a self-contained artifact that exists separate from the book that preceded it offered me an avenue—a guidebook—into writing beyond a previous book. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Then there’s his second book, War of the Foxes, which is entirely different in its thematic concerns and poetic approach. Another captivating book! One I find myself continually revisiting and learning from. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

His first poetry book, Crush, is one of the most influential books about panic and obsession I’ve ever encountered. The first time I read it? I couldn’t put it down. Same for the second time reading it, and the third and fourth. [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

[In the weeks and months leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] Who can talk about the poetry of this century without mentioning @richard-siken.bsky.social? [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

[...] and breath-like line breaks in his prose poetry form. His poetry books changed my life. And so, it is a profound honor that he wrote a blurb for my book, Frame Inside a Frame:

“What delights this gallery of poetic frames offers, leading us through the labyrinths of time and memory! Reading these poems is like following some Kentucky Dante through the hinterlands and, ultimately, down into the underworld to eavesdrop on the murmuring there. But what elevates this collection into the quietly sublime is the poetic voice of Daniel Lassell—direct, honest, revelatory—a humble witness to the beauty and the carnage of our times. I hope readers enjoy this fine collection as much as I have.”
—David Shumate, author of Kimonos in the Closet and The Floating Bridge

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Shumate’s class was transformative in every way. I changed my major to English, I took every class I could with him. I feel in love with his poetic style: the crispness, the satirical humor, the careful attention to language, [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

David Shumate was my English teacher in college, and it was because of him that I got into poetry. He used a poetry anthology to teach first-year English composition, which struck me as unique. It was an entryway into a contemporary artform I had not known existed, and [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

While some prose poetry may read as indistinguishable from a flash fiction piece, not Shumate’s—the poems are sound driven, multi-layered and tediously constructed, and showcasing the same urgency and tension that readers find in the very best lyrical poetry. And they’re funny too! [...]

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Daniel Lassell @dlassell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

[In the weeks and months leading up to my book’s publication, I want to elevate the people who graciously blurbed my book.] David Shumate’s prose poetry is not a box that a lyric poem has been placed into, but a conveyer for boundless stretching, welcoming readers into it. [...]

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