Dan Bellm

Dan Bellm is a poet and translator living in Berkeley, California. He has published three books of poetry, most recently Practice, winner of a 2009 California Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. His first book, One Hand on the Wheel, launched the California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press; his second, Buried Treasure, won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. His poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Best American Spiritual Writing, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also a widely published translator of poetry and fiction from Spanish and French, and teaches literary translation at Antioch University Los Angeles and at New York University.

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Schedule
 

THURSDAY

12:30-1:45pm
Conversation: Crossing Boundaries
Dan Bellm, Eavan Boland, Nikky Finney, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church                                                                                                 

2:00-3:15pm
Reading and Conversation
Dan Bellm, Joseph Millar, Patricia Smith
Victoria Theatre

FRIDAY

10:50-11:50am
Poets on Poetry
Dan Bellm
North Star Academy Multi-Purpose Room 

12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Dan Bellm, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Idra Novey, Gregory Pardlo
North Star Academy Great Room
 

SATURDAY

9:00-10:10
Festival Poets Reading
Dan Bellm, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Thomas Lux
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral 

10:30-11:40
Conversation: Poetry and Pride
Dan Bellm, Henri Cole, Nikky Finney, Timothy Liu
Victoria Theatre
 

SUNDAY

10:30-11:40
Festival Poet Readings
Dan Bellm, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Paul Legault, Ada Limón
CAE Auditorium