Daniel Halpern

Biography

Daniel Halpern is the author of nine collections of poetry. He was editor of Antaeus. He has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as the Editor’s Award given by Poets and Writers and the Maxwell Perkins Award. He taught in the Columbia MFA writing program, and, with James Michener, founded The National Poetry Series. Halpern was publisher of Ecco and Executive Editor at Knopf.

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POETRY / Winter 2023

Styles of Eating

By Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass

She’d gathered ramps in the woods, although she found them 
A hyperbole of the food world, an over-priced scallion

With a finish of garlic scapes. But finding them in the forest, 
He thought, and picking them with her strong hands,

Spring 1981

Sunday Avenue

By Daniel Halpern
Spring 1981

Night Scene

By Daniel Halpern
Spring 1978

The Dance

By Daniel Halpern