Dan Bellm lives in Berkeley, California. His fourth book of poems is Deep Well (Lavender Ink, 2017); his third, Practice (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), won a 2009 California Book Award. Recent translations include Central American Book of the Dead, by Balam Rodrigo (FlowerSong Press, 2022), Speaking in Song, by Pura López Colomé (Shearsman Books, 2017), and The Song of the Dead, by Pierre Reverdy (Black Square Editions, 2016), with the support of an Artist's Fellowship in Translation from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches literary translation and poetry in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, and serves as an interpreter for asylum seekers with Centro Legal de la Raza, Oakland, California.

Other poems by Dan Bellm in Verse Daily:
July 29, 2008:   "Jacob's Ladder" "The young man and woman waiting for the trolley..."

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Other poems on the web by Dan Bellm:
Three poems

Dan Bellm's Website.

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