Daniel Bliss is an English professor and world-traveling poet originally from Anchorage, Alaska. His work often focuses on the honest side of rural Americana. Instead of focusing on the often-naïve aspect, I examine and ask what does it mean to be raised in places that are forgotten. 

What moments exist in these places that end up sticking with us and later defining what we attempt to escape. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Pinhole Poetry, the Bicoastal Review, League of Canadian Poets, Blood and Bourbon, BarBar, and many others. 


Daniel Bliss 

Necessary Evenings

Coming of Age in a Crow's Nest

Going Nowhere

Nine Days Across Alaska 

Between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia

Charm City Strangers 

Red Door Saloon 

You Were the Light on the Prairies 

Rock Salt Rubies

Speaking of Loneliness While Together

Standing in the Corner in an Olive Dress

Speaking After a Funeral 

Labor Day Fireworks

Front Seat of October 

Thunder in the Distance 

Parallel Ghosts 

Simple Mornings at Your Place

Perish Between the Milo 

Selling Home

Riding State Highway 351

Hours Ahead of Yesterday 

Holiday Party

Caught in Buyback Rip Tides

Aisles of a Manhattan Bookstore

Couldn't Fall in Edinburgh 

81 Exit

Post-Pandemic Barstool 

SEPTA'S Orange Express Line

Epileptic Morning

Remind Me Why We Got Out

Rusted Lightning Between Apple Trees  

Delicate Art of Drowning

Annapolitan 

Eight Ball Thunder

Don't Bother The Moon

Our Last Name Doesn't Fit Funerals 

Find Us Through The Wine 

Shameless Act of Ignorance 

Set The Clocks To Nowhere 

Daniel Elias Bliss

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