Daniel J. Weeks

Poet, Historian, Essayist

Independent

June 1980 – Present (33 years 2 months)Eatontown, NJ

My latest poetry book is For Now: New and Collected Poems, 1979-2017. I have previously published seven collections of poetry—X Poems (Blast Press, 1990), Ancestral Songs (Libra Publishers, Inc., 1992), Indignities (Mellen Poetry Press, 1999), Small Beer (Blast Press, 2007), Characters (Blast Press, 2008), Virginia (Blast Press, 2009), and Self-Symphonies (Blast Press). My poetry has appeared in The Cimarron Review, Pebble Lake Review, The California Quarterly, Mudfish, Puckerbrush Review, Zone 3, Slant, The Raintown Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Northwest Florida Review, The Roanoke Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Mobius,, NY Arts Weekly, and many other publications. Two of my poems were also published in Wild Poets of Ecstasy: An Anthology of Ecstatic Poetry (Pelican Pond, 2011). My translations of French symbolist poetry have appeared in Blue Unicorn.

My history books include: Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664 (Lehigh University Press, 2019); Not For Filthy Lucre's Sake: Richard Saltar and the Antiproprietary Movement in East New Jersey, 1665-1708 (Lehigh University Press, 2001).

I have also published a book of essays and reviews titled A More Prosaic Light (Coleridge Institute Press, 2015)