David Daniel’s book, Seven-Star Bird, won the Larry Levis Reading Prize for the best first or second poetry book of the year, and his last book, Ornaments, inspired poet Tom Sleigh to write, “No one in any generation is writing poems like these: smart, visceral, and immensely pleasurable to read.” Called by Harold Bloom, “an authentic heir to Hart Crane”, his new book, What Love Is, is a collaboration with artist George Cochrane--it's a book of poems in a sort of graphic-novel-meets-Blake style. Daniel was the poetry editor of Ploughshares for more than a decade while teaching at Emerson College. He now directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is also the creator and producer of FDU’s WAMFest: The Words, Art, and Music Festival. WAMFest has been celebrated for its progressive arts programming by the National Endowment for the Arts, and has featured Bruce Springsteen, Robert Pinsky, Chuck D, Rosanne Cash, Talib Kweli, Neil Gaiman and dozens of the most important artists and writers of our time.