Daniel Lassell

Daniel Lassell

@dlassell.bsky.social

Author of Frame Inside a Frame (TRP, 2025) | Spit (Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, 2021) | Ad Spot (Ethel Zine, 2021) | The Emptying Earth (Madhouse Press, 2023) | from Kentucky | he/him

336 Followers 341 Following 104 Posts Joined Sep 2023
6 hours ago

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1 week ago

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

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1 week ago

Same here! 🥳

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1 week ago

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

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1 month ago

So excited for this!! 🥳

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1 month ago

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

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

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1 month ago

Of course! Happy to help!

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1 month ago

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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2 months ago

Yep, that’s the one!

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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

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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2 months ago

Huge congrats!!! 🎉 🥳✨

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2 months ago
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3 months ago
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.

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

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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3 months ago

Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏✨

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4 months ago

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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4 months ago

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

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4 months ago
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Infinite Perceptions, Inclusive Poetics A Review of Daniel Lassell’s Frame Inside a Frame (Texas Review Press, September 2025) by Susan L. Leary The title of Daniel Lassell’s newest collection, Frame Inside a Frame, captures the primary the...

Super excited to have a review of Daniel Lassell’s FRAME INSIDE A FRAME (Texas Review Press) in the new issue of Diode! A beautiful book full of so much wisdom, friends!

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4 months ago

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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4 months ago

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

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5 months ago
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The Poets Weave Daniel Lassell is the author of two poetry books:Spit, published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize; and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review...

Thrilled to be featured on @wfiu.bsky.social's Poets Weave! Listen to me read some poems here: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

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6 months ago

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6 months ago
A Review of Daniel Lassell’s Frame Inside a Frame Following his award-winning debut collection, Spit, Daniel Lassell has put forth the revelatory Frame Inside a Frame, published by Texas Review Press this month. Cinematic in its visual composition…

So delighted by this deeply considered book review of Frame Inside a Frame! Grateful to @adroitjournal.bsky.social and Natalie Tombasco! theadroitjournal.org/2025/09/08/a...

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

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

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

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7 months ago
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I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken - Copper Canyon Press

Purchase I Do Know Some Things here: www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/i-do-k...

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7 months ago
“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

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

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7 months ago

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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