Welcome to poet David Daniel's website.

David had his first full-length collection of poetry, Seven-Star Bird, published in October 2003 by Graywolf Press.

The book won the Seventh Annual Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. The $1,000 award was judged by David Wojahn. Previous winners have been Susan Aizenberg for Muse, Steve Scafidi for Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer, Nick Flynn for Some Ether, Joel Brouwer for Exactly What Happened, Sandra Alcosser for Except by Nature, and Belle Waring for Dark Blonde. To listen to a recording of David's reading at the award ceremony, follow this link. 

Explore this site to learn more about David and his book, read some poems, listen to a few songs (he's also a songwriter), and order the book. Feel free to contact David if you want to pass along good wishes (detractors need not apply) or ask about appearances. He's available to read at colleges and talk about literary publishing.

"At his best, as in the wonderful title poem, David Daniel is 'River-Throated,' an authentic heir to Hart Crane. Mr. Daniel's visionary development of the flooding of Friendship, Texas—with its now lost legacy of Moravian spiritual culture—is a persuasive synecdoche for American losses in our ongoing engulfment."
—Harold Bloom