Daniel Nester

Daniel Nester is the author of How to Be Inappropriate. He lives in upsate New York and teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.

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All Aboard the Enlightenment Express
Robert Bly and Li-Young Lee share a double bill at a yoga mecca in the Berkshires.
Critical Mass
Dispatch from the National Book Critics Circle Awards ceremony.
I, Literary Tourist
Wiffle ball and scones at the poetry bed and breakfast.
Rejection Slip? What Rejection Slip?
Dispatch from a reading by Lyn Lifshin, who might be one of the most prolific poets in the universe.
Still Moving
Ron Mann on his 1982 film Poetry in Motion.
When You’re Strange
Should we consider Jim Morrison, rock’s Bozo Dionysus, a real poet?

Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry in Motion
Daniel Nester revisits the "greatest poetry documentary of all time" on its 30th birthday.

Daniel Nester is the author of How to Be Inappropriate. He lives in upsate New York and teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.