Dan Rosenberg









"Dynamic and vivid, Dan Rosenberg’s poems ponder the nature of consciousness, fatherhood, the passage of time, and our relevance within its cycle." -- Blackbird

"A serene but potent energy powers Dan Rosenberg's magical and mysterious verses, which both describe and create the kind of transcendent epiphanies that emerge from eschewing the 'too-much' that is everywhere around us" -- Posit

"Dan Rosenberg is a deeply curious poet, experimental, playful, always pushing after new forms and approaches.... His successes with reinvention give any poet exhausted with 'finding one’s voice' a refreshing new outlook: the voice is always right in front of you, part of whatever project you are pursuing." -- Ryo Yamaguchi, Michigan Quarterly Review


[Rosenberg's poems] "seem born out of intense scrutiny and enduring observation." -- Lauren Haldeman, American Microreviews and Interviews



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Dan Rosenberg is the author of Bassinet (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022),  cadabra (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), and The Crushing Organ (Dream Horse Press, 2012). He has also written two chapbooks, Thigh's Hollow (Omnidawn, 2015) and A Thread of Hands (Tilt Press, 2010), and a collaborative micro-chapbook with Ori Fienberg and Zach Goldberg, Berg x Berg x Berg. He co-translated Miklavž Komelj's Hippodrome (Zephyr Press, 2016), and his translation of Komelj's new and selected poems, Night Is More Abstract, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press in 2026. His work has won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.

Rosenberg holds a B.A. from Tufts University, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia, where he was a Presidential Fellow. Until the closure of Wells College in 2024, he served as chair of the English department, coordinated the Wells College Visiting Writers Series, and edited the Wells College Press Chapbook Contest. He was named the 2025 Tompkins County Poet Laureate and taught at Cornell University as a Senior Visiting Lecturer from 2024-2025.

Rosenberg is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and composition. He also co-curates the virtual Yetzirah reading series. Rosenberg lives in Fruita, CO, with his wife, the poet Alicia Rebecca Myers, their son, Miles, and their medium good foster-fail doggo, Gumbo.

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