The Shower Scene from Hamlet

Daniel Lusk is an award-winning poet and author of five previous poetry collections. In 2016 his genre-bending essay "Bomb" was awarded a Pushcart Prize. He is also recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod International Journal), a Gertrude Claytor Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America), and other honors. A former commentator on books for NPR and well-known for his teaching, he has been a Visiting Poet at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., Stranmillis University College-Queens, Belfast, N.I., and Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. As a Poet-in-the-Schools, he taught children and teachers in more than 100 schools in the U.S. He has been a Resident Fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and his poetry has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies, among them Poetry, New Letters, Poetry Ireland, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, The Chariton Review, North American Review, Markings (Scotland), Nimrod International Journal, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Billy Collins, Ed.). An Iowa native, he is a Senior Lecturer of English Emeritus at the University of Vermont.