Donald PlattDonald Platt has published seven books of poetry, including ONE ILLUMINATED LETTER OF BEING (Red Mountain Press, 2020), Man Praying (Free Verse Editions / Parlor Press, 2017), and Tornadoesque (CavanKerry Press, 2016). Platt's poemshave appeared in The New Republic, Nation, Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, Southern Review, and Paris Review as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1996 and 2011) and three Pushcart Prizes and he teaches in Purdue University's MFA Program. His eighth collection SWANSDOWN, was the winner of the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. Read More Read Less