Dan Albergotti


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Dan Albergotti

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born June 05, 1964
gender male
place of birth St. Matthews, SC, United States

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Links
Dan Albergotti poetry reading, BOA Dine & Rhyme 2007 (video)
Dan Albergotti poems at From the Fishouse (audio)
Dan Albergotti on The Writer's Almanac (audio)

Bio
Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, ...more

books by Dan Albergotti

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avg rating: 4.50 | 12 ratings | 1 distinct work
The Boatloads The Boatloads (New Poets of America Series)
by Dan Albergotti (goodreads author!)
avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published 2008
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Dan's writing

The Boatloads (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 26 days ago, 10:37AM
description: Collection of poems, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions, published in April 2008



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Poetics 07/12 Dan is currently reading:
Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
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Touching from a Dist... 07/12 Dan is currently reading:
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division (Paperback)
by Deborah Curtis
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God Is Not Great: Ho... 07/12 Dan is currently reading:
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
by Christopher Hitchens
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August 06
Crush Dan Albergotti marked as to-read:
Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by Richard Siken (Goodreads author!)
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August 05
Poetry Reading Dan said "yes" to attending the event: Poetry Reading.
date: August 30, 2008 04:15PM
location: Decatur Book Festival, City Hall, Decatur, GA, United States
description: Dan Albergotti will read at the Decatur Book Festival in the City Hall venue in Decatur, GA. The reading starts at 4:15 pm and will be followed by a book-signing. The reading will also feature poets Juliana Gray and Paul Guest. Free and open to the public. For more information, email info@decaturbookfestival.com.
July 31
184773 Dan Albergotti took the never-ending book quiz.
questions answered: 225
correct: 208 (92.4%)
skipped: 215
best streak: 10
questions added: 0
July 27
Cusp: Poems Dan Albergotti added:
Cusp: Poems (Paperback)
by Jennifer Grotz
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Refusing Heaven Dan Albergotti gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Refusing Heaven (Paperback)
by Jack Gilbert
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Monolithos Dan Albergotti gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Monolithos (Hardcover)
by Jack Gilbert
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Views of Jeopardy Dan Albergotti gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Views of Jeopardy (Hardcover)
by Jack Gilbert
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The Selected Poems Dan Albergotti added:
The Selected Poems (Paperback)
by A.R. Ammons
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American Crawl: Poem... Dan Albergotti added:
American Crawl: Poems (Paperback)
by Paul Allen
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Dan's favorite quotes

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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
John Keats

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"It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
William Carlos Williams

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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
John Keats

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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.""
William Butler Yeats

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"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."
Saul Bellow




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