Daniel Halpern is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Something Shining. He was editor of the international literary magazine Antaeus, which he founded in Tangier with Paul Bowles, and publisher of Ecco. He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as the first “Editor’s Award,” given by Poets and Writers and the Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction. He taught in the Columbia MFA program, which he chaired for many years. And in 1978, with James Michener, founded The National Poetry Series. He is now an Executive Editor at Knopf. These poems will be included in his new collection, Air, to be published by Copper Canyon Press.
