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Author Daniel W. Wright

Daniel W. Wright

Daniel W. Wright is a poet, editor, and fiction writer. He is the co-founder of Back of the Class Press. Wright most recently released From Obscurity to Oblivion: Collected Poems 2008-2017 (Spartan Press, 2022) and wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx (Dark Horse, 2021). He is the author of five collections of poetry and one collection of prose. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals. Wright currently resides in St. Louis, MO, where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.

Books by Daniel W. Wright




Love Letters from the Underground

By Daniel W. Wright

Published: 2021

Dan Wright's writing hits like a good friend updating you on the past few years after making eye contact in a moderately crowded bar in an industrial part of town. After sharing a hug that could pancake a Volvo, he sips a cheap beer beloved by the people of that bar. He opens himself up like a prognostic fish on a cutting board tired of Heraclitus's eternal river of sewage, but never willing to quit and always willing to take that fisherman's knife and tell the world, "Thank you but I can do it myself!
~ RC Patterson, Black Magic

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