DONALD PLATT

Donald Platt is the author of four volumes of poetry: Dirt Angels, My Father Says Grace, Cloud Atlas, and Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns. His fine-press, limited-edition chapbook Leap Second at the Turn of the Millennium was published in 1999 by the Center for Book Arts in New York City. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, Nation, Paris Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among others. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, two Verna Emery Poetry Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize.

He teaches at Purdue University.