Daniel Simon Poetry Reading & Discussion
Tue, Apr 06
|Virtual on Zoom
Poetry that moves through memory, place, and literary inheritance, entering conversation with writers such as William Blake and Emily Dickinson while exploring how the past continues to shape the questions we carry.
Time & Location
Apr 06, 2027, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
Daniel Simon is an award-winning editor, poet, translator, and scholar of comparative literature. Simon is the assistant director and editor in chief of World Literature Today magazine at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves on the English, International Studies, and Judaic Studies faculty.
His poetry has appeared in three verse collections; three anthologies; been translated into six languages; and nominated for multiple awards. The anthology Nebraska Poetry (2017), which he edited, won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award and was included on NPR’s “50 States” summer booklist (2022).
He also edited Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2020; Chinese translation, 2026), named a Publishers Weekly starred pick. His latest anthology, A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature, was published in February 2026 by Restless Books.
A Nebraska native, Simon is the grandson of Czech and Irish immigrants, grew up along…