Daniel Blokh
Daniel Blokh is a Jewish-American writer based in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents hail from Russia and Ukraine. He is one of five 2018 National Student Poets, representing the Southeast region. He is the author of the memoir In Migration (BAM! Publishing, 2016), the chapbook Grimmening (Diode Editions, 2018), and the chapbook Holding Myself Hostage In The Kitchen (Lit City Press, 2017). His work has won 1st in the Princeton High School Poetry Competition and been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing awards and Foyle Young Poet awards, and has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, DIALOGIST, Permafrost, Blueshift, Cleaver, Gigantic Sequins, Forage Poetry, Avis, Thin Air, Cicada, and more.
Photo Courtesy of the Author
Books
Grimmening
Publication Date:
March 2018
In grimmening, Blokh lays bare the anxieties of adolescence, revealing the struggle of navigating a new and unfamiliar world. Throughout poems that take the appearance of guides, the narrator searches for comfort in art, faith, and identity. Grimmening shows us that to growing up is to grapple with the universe; that to discover a new world means letting go of an old one.
Publication Date:
