Daniel Simon

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Photo by Alba Simon

Daniel Simon is a poet, essayist, translator, and WLT’s assistant director and editor in chief. His 2017 edited volume, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award. His most recent edited collection, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Deep Vellum/Phoneme, 2020), was a Publishers Weekly starred pick. Under a Gathering Sky, his third book of poems, is forthcoming from SFA Press in spring 2024.

  • EDITOR'S NOTE, March 2011

    March 2011
    Daniel Simon
    At the age of twenty, I became an accidental jazz aficionado at the same time I became an accidental English major. Two years earlier, when I entered the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as a freshman,…

  • EDITOR'S NOTE, May 2011

    May 2011
    Daniel Simon
    Daniel Simon, Assistant Director and Editor in Chief . . . there never was a match in the space between two nothings just a cry at either end and all that dazzling light. —Mona Nicole Sfeir, "Laws of…

  • EDITOR'S NOTE, January 2012

    January 2012
    Daniel Simon
    Daniel Simon, Assistant Director and Editor in Chief "We all keep trying to make sense in language of a world that baffles, amuses, and appalls us." – Virginia Euwer Wolff, April 25, 2010 (email) Tow…

  • EDITOR'S NOTE, July 2011

    July 2011
    Daniel Simon
    Daniel Simon, Assistant Director and Editor in Chief O my country, I can see the walls and arches and the columns and the statues and lonely towers of our ancestors, but I don't see the glory. —Giaco…

  • EDITOR'S NOTE, September 2011

    September 2011
    Daniel Simon
    Daniel Simon, Assistant Director and Editor in Chief It is the inability to be contained . . . that has allowed contemporary poetry to rethink language into a method of enlarging the sayable, and thu…