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David Galef

@dgalef

David Galef writes in 17 different directions. His day-job is professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University.

 Montclair, NJ
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Joined February 2014
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Daniel Galef@DanielGalefOct 9
I'm looking forward to reading a couple of unpublished poems at this prize reading on Sunday at 1PM Central Time, as well as to hearing the other placing and winning poets! Be there and be square
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Chuffed that two poems of mine have placed in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest from Poets & Patrons! No associated publication, alas, but I look forward to participating in the prize reading on October 11th and will post a link as soon as one is available.
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James Marcus@jamesamarcusSep 11
Vladimir Nabokov in 1910, about to depart for a Berlin roller-skating rink.
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kim magowan@kimmagowan17 Nov 2025
Hooray our amazing micro writers!
Pithead Chapel (@PitheadChapel) profile picturePithead Chapel@PitheadChapel16 Nov 2025
We're proud to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025! Please join us in congratulating these stellar writers. Good luck everyone!
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For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet). newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
Who My Child Was and Would Be

Who My Child Was and Would Be

When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.

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We are so excited to celebrate the release today of Susan Coventry's TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN, "A true-to-life love story that illuminates an intriguing woman’s life, the life of her brilliant physician husband, and the wretched secret they share." regal-house-publishing.mybig…
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Pertinent passage from a tremendous book:
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"My brush handles are adorned in dried-up colors: startling navy, temperate teal, muddy ochre." Prismatic and cinematic, a layered coming of age story from @authorsudha | doesithavepockets.com/fictio…
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Thank you very much to Robin Helweg-Larsen for featuring my poem "A Nightingale to a Sad Poet" at his blog Form in Formless Times! Birds deserve to get a rebuttal to annoying romantics getting drunk underneath their tree: formalverse.com/2025/07/28/d…
Double sonnet, Daniel Galef, ‘A Nightingale to a Sad Poet’

Double sonnet, Daniel Galef, ‘A Nightingale to a Sad Poet’

(Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ from the other side) You slump at my tree’s foot, complex angsts brewing While our red-clawed, red-beaked animal furies In these shadowy plots hatch our own undoing.…

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Catch Patrick O'Dowd at Barnes & Noble Paramus this Saturday at 1 pm to get your signed copy of A Campus on Fire! @BNParamus stores.barnesandnoble.com/ev…
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I wrote about Ralph Waldo Emerson for @LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/…
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Can an eyeball have lovers? Emerson’s Scepticism

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Can an eyeball have lovers? Emerson’s Scepticism

‘He draws his rents from rage and pain,’ Emerson once wrote of ‘the writer’, but more narrowly of himself...

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This week's poems bring us news both light and very, very heavy. (Click link in thread for all nine #PoemsOfTheWeek) #stonehenge #England #poetry #humor #comedy #Scotland #Scots #SimonMacCulloch
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Nina Schuyler's In this Ravishing World (winner of The W.S. Porter Prize & The Prism Prize for Climate Literature!) releases today! Happy #bookbirthday, Nina! regal-house-publishing.mybig…
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well THIS is certainly going on the ol’ CV
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Poetry by the Sea

Poetry by the Sea

A Global Conference

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The skies in Athens are blood-red with Sahara dust. Here is a poem I wrote on this worsening phenomenon, with thanks to @readliberties :
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This event at the New York Society Library (@nysoclib) is coming up soon! There are options for in-person and virtual attendance, with more details on the NYSL website. I might even go crazy with another slide show....
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If you don't want to miss insightful #Interviews & more, do subscribe! #Fiction Editor @reenashah had this to say abt my @The_Rumpus pieces in an earlier newsletter! Deeply honored!
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Nothing like a blue-chip reviewer, and certainly the first one to call me "endearing"--I feel like a Sesame Street character.
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In our most recent Review, John Banville praises James Marcus’s portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the warmth with which Marcus illustrates Emerson’s love and loss of his first marriage as an enthusiastic portrayal both endearing and persuasive. #BookBoost #BookReview #Read
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It's not every day that I'm cheek-by-jowl with RuPaul (from the Washington Post Book World's preview of coming titles)!
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Frank MacShane (who was my first translation teacher) spends a rainy afternoon in Manhattan with Borges. The piece is in a fifty-year-old New American Review paperback, whose yellowing pages are about to self-destruct:
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