Poems that appear in Poetry December 2015
if I could leak to the public the film of when I needed to reach you —
that would be one way.
— Cold Open
Danniel Schoonebeek’s American Barricade (YesYes Books, 2014) was named one of the year’s ten standout debuts by Poets & Writers. Schoonebeek’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Tin House, Iowa Review, Fence, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, Guernica, and elsewhere. He has received awards and honors from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Poets House, the Ace Hotel, and Oregon State University. Schoonebeek hosts the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn and has served as editor of the PEN Poetry Series since 2013. His second book, a travelogue called C’est la guerre, is forthcoming from Poor Claudia in 2015.