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Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). Other books include The Endarkenment (Pittsburgh, 2008), The Splinter Factory (Manic D, 2002), The Forgiveness Parade (Manic D Press, 1998), and Alibi School (Manic D, 1995). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry (1994 and 2010). A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Hudson Valley. (Source)

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Poems by Jeffrey McDaniel

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The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

January 19, 2026
“so I slowly whisper I love you / thirty-two and a third times.” — Jeffrey McDaniel
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Dear Man Whose Marriage I Wrecked by Jeffrey McDaniel

August 26, 2011
"What I'm really trying to say is I tumbled into her / arms like a thousand reluctant dominoes." – Jeffrey McDaniel
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The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

May 13, 2011
"When the phone rings, I put it to my ear / without saying hello." — Jeffrey McDaniel
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The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy by Jeffrey McDaniel

January 25, 2011
"I'm sorry all the kisses // I scrawled on your neck were written / in disappearing ink." — Jeffrey McDaniel
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The Archipelago of Kisses by Jeffrey McDaniel

January 23, 2011
"The I do kiss. / The I'll love you through a brick wall kiss." — Jeffrey McDaniel
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Absence by Jeffrey McDaniel

April 11, 2010
"We’re both self-centered, / but the world revolves around us at the same speed." — Jeffrey McDaniel
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The Scars of Utopia by Jeffrey McDaniel

October 3, 2005
“we're all missing something. I wish / there were Band Aids for what you don't know,” — Jeffrey McDaniel