Daniel Borzutzky

Biography

Daniel Borzutzky’s most recent poetry collection is The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House, 2024). His poetry collection The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts, 2016) received the National Book Award.

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POETRY / Fall 2017

Lake Michigan, Scene 0

By Daniel Borzutzky

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house asking questions about the boy they shot twenty-two times 

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house screaming about how the videotape of the shooting was covered up so that the...