In the last two and a half years, two poems of Donald Platt’s have appeared in The Atlantic online, as well as forty-five other poems in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Diode, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Third Coast, Cimarron Review, Seneca Review, Plume, Laurel Review, Notre Dame Review, Barrow St., PINCH, Cincinnati Review, Florida Review, Fence, swamp pink, Tupelo Quarterly, Rattle, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Five Points, Adroit Journal, Southern Review, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, New Criterion, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, and The Nation. One of his poems has been included in Best American Poetry 2025. Tender Voyeur, his ninth book, was published by Grid Books in 2025. His eighth book, Swansdown, won the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. His other books include One Illuminated Letter of Being (Red Mountain Press, 2020), Man Praying (Parlor Press / Free Verse Editions, 2017), Tornadoesque (CavanKerry Press, 2016), Dirt Angels (New Issues Press, 2009), My Father Says Grace (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), and Cloud Atlas and Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns (both from Purdue University Press and published respectively in 2002 and 1994). A limited edition of his poems entitled Leap Second at the Turn of the Millennium, was published in 1999 as the winner of the Center for Book Arts’ Poetry Chapbook Competition. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1996 and 2011), of the Paumanok Poetry Award, and of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize. Currently, he is a full professor of English at Purdue University.
