Dan Bellm

Dan Bellm has published four books of poetry, most recently Deep Well (2017), as well as translations of poets Pura López Colomé (Speaking in Song), Pierre Reverdy (The Song of the Dead), and Jorge Esquinca (Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue). He lives in Berkeley, California, and teaches translation and poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles.

I began with one short, circumscribed, parenthetical, untitled poem, in a language I didn’t know, a spark of encounter..