Donald Platt

Donald Platt is the author of seven volumes of poetry. His most recent book is One Illuminated Letter of Being, which will be published by Red Mountain Press on August 30th, 2020.  His other books include Man Praying, Tornadoesque, Dirt Angels, My Father Says Grace, Cloud Atlas, and Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Nation, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Iowa Review, and Yale Review, as well as many other national journals.  He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes.  Three of his poems have been anthologized in The Best American Poetry series.  He teaches in the MFA program at Purdue University and divides his time between Lafayette, Indiana and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.