Dane Hamann

Publications

Book
A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun
Available at Kelsay Books, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon
A book of introspection, here is the puzzle of the body both safe and endangered, the body’s connection to land, to seasons, to a ‘you’ never defined. These poems are full of extraordinary awareness of the body in space and time...

Deborah Keenan, author of eleven collections of poems and a book of writing ideas, from tiger to prayer.

Dane Hamann’s A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun is a remarkable debut first collection...To read these poems is to be inspired by a new poetic voice that is natural, real, and essential as your next breath.

Eliot Khalil Wilson, author of This Island of Dogs

Dane Hamann skillfully captures the transcendence of moving under one’s own power and our biological need to connect with nature. A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun takes readers on an immersive journey down remote gravel roads, around serene lakes, and through mountainous terrain that won’t soon be forgotten.

Mackenzie Havey, author of Mindful Running
Chapbooks
Sutra Press – Q & A

Ghost City Press – What the River Made (2018); Impossible Volumes (2020); O MAD EVERYTHING (2021)

Rinky Dink Press (Series Three) – The Cold Coast
Journals (Online Work)

Pine Row Press – The Promise of Light (and Poet Interview)

Right Hand Pointing – Blue

The Headlight Review – Risotto and Black Coffee; Thirst; Hopeless City

Parentheses Journal – The Softest Things

Harpur Palate – Scrap

The Night Heron Barks – Thresholds

Willows Wept Review – Snapped Collarbone; On the Shore of the Lake, I Stare into the Midnight Sky

Riggwelter – Ice Bright in the Harbor

Figure 1 – Highway

Porridge Magazine – Spring; Rust

Recenter Press Journal – Fields

Ghost City Review – Thoughts

Kissing Dynamite – Ennui

Barren Magazine – Hammer Sonnet

L'éphémère Review – August Sonnet

Nice Cage – Two poems

Two Peach – Who will play the song of catastrophe

Switchback Journal – From how small a split will we supernova; We bathe in miles of dust

COUNTERCLOCK Journal – Pinhole Sunrise

Wildness – [Q & A] (Will the nearly broken world)

Jet Fuel Review Issue 10 – Q & A poems

Lines + Stars – Fifty-Two Card Pickup

Cobalt Review – Light Splashing So Deliberately

Anthology of Chicago – The Cloisters

Floodwall Magazine – Blood Orange

Stymie – At the Pole Vault Pits

Jet Fuel Review Issue 4 – Moonlight by Edvard Munch; Q & A

2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition—Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, 2nd Place
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Reviews

Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor
(TriQuarterly)
"Shelly Taylor’s debut effort, Black-Eyed Heifer, is a mosaic of form and language . . . It is a riptide pulling its readers out into the deep, powerful currents of nostalgia."
Water Puppets by Quan Barry
(TriQuarterly)
"There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets . . . There can be no denial: the winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry is a demanding, worthwhile read."
Post- by Wayne Miller
(Adroit Journal)
"Post- is much like a reservoir . . . Volumes of Miller’s precise and resonant language flood every space within this book, creating a world of both gritty intensity and thoughtful poise. As a collection, Post- carries significant momentum. . ."
Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
(Whale Road Review)
"Wonderfully strange and achingly poignant, Max Ritvo's debut collection of poetry, Four Reincarnations, is vibrant with small worlds."
Interviews

Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
by Dane Hamann
Interview with B rian Komei Dempster
by Dane Hamann
Interview with Nikky Finney
by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price
Interview with Brian Barker
by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price
Interview with Dean Rader
by Aaron Delee, Sarah Jenkins, C. Russell Price, Lana Rakhman, Christine Pacyk, Anthony Opal, Danielle Burhop, and Dane Hamann
Interview with Beth Bachmann
by Danielle Burhop, Aaron Delee, Dane Hamann, Sarah Jenkins, Anthony Opal, Christine Pacyk, C. Russell Price, and Lana Rakhman
Selected Art
Painting — Drawing — Mixed Media
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Dane Hamann holds a BA in Studio Art and English from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. His poem "Daniel Hudson Burnham" received 2nd Place for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award in the 2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition. He's a staff member of TriQuarterly, the literary magazine of Northwestern University.

Dane works as a copy editor and indexer for American Technical Publishers, a textbook and digital media publisher in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Previously, he interned at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Milkweed Editions, a literary publisher.

Twitter: @donnyhamms

Dane Hamann

Publications

Book

A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun

Available at Kelsay Books, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

Chapbooks

Sutra Press – Q & A

Ghost City Press – What the River Made (2018); Impossible Volumes (2020); O MAD EVERYTHING (2021)

Rinky Dink Press (Series Three) – The Cold Coast

Journals (Online Work)

2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition—Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, 2nd Place
Daniel Hudson Burnham

Reviews

Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor
(TriQuarterly)

"Shelly Taylor’s debut effort, Black-Eyed Heifer, is a mosaic of form and language . . . It is a riptide pulling its readers out into the deep, powerful currents of nostalgia."

Water Puppets by Quan Barry
(TriQuarterly)

"There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets . . . There can be no denial: the winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry is a demanding, worthwhile read."

Post- by Wayne Miller
(Adroit Journal)

"Post- is much like a reservoir . . . Volumes of Miller’s precise and resonant language flood every space within this book, creating a world of both gritty intensity and thoughtful poise. As a collection, Post- carries significant momentum. . ."

Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
(Whale Road Review)

"Wonderfully strange and achingly poignant, Max Ritvo's debut collection of poetry, Four Reincarnations, is vibrant with small worlds."

Interviews

Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

by Dane Hamann

Interview with B rian Komei Dempster

by Dane Hamann

Interview with Nikky Finney

by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

Interview with Brian Barker

by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

Interview with Dean Rader

by Aaron Delee, Sarah Jenkins, C. Russell Price, Lana Rakhman, Christine Pacyk, Anthony Opal, Danielle Burhop, and Dane Hamann

Interview with Beth Bachmann

by Danielle Burhop, Aaron Delee, Dane Hamann, Sarah Jenkins, Anthony Opal, Christine Pacyk, C. Russell Price, and Lana Rakhman

Selected Art

Painting — Drawing — Mixed Media

Contact

Feel free to leave a message about poetry, painting, or any other artistic inquiries.

About

Dane Hamann

Publications

Book

A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun

Available at Kelsay Books, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

Chapbooks

Sutra Press – Q & A Ghost City Press – What the River Made (2018); Impossible Volumes (2020); O MAD EVERYTHING (2021) Rinky Dink Press (Series Three) – The Cold Coast

Journals (Online Work)

2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition—Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, 2nd PlaceDaniel Hudson Burnham

Reviews

Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor(TriQuarterly)

"Shelly Taylor’s debut effort, Black-Eyed Heifer, is a mosaic of form and language . . . It is a riptide pulling its readers out into the deep, powerful currents of nostalgia."

Water Puppets by Quan Barry(TriQuarterly)

"There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets . . . There can be no denial: the winner of the 2010 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry is a demanding, worthwhile read."

Post- by Wayne Miller(Adroit Journal)

"Post- is much like a reservoir . . . Volumes of Miller’s precise and resonant language flood every space within this book, creating a world of both gritty intensity and thoughtful poise. As a collection, Post- carries significant momentum. . ."

Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo(Whale Road Review)

"Wonderfully strange and achingly poignant, Max Ritvo's debut collection of poetry, Four Reincarnations, is vibrant with small worlds."

Interviews

Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

by Dane Hamann

Interview with Brian Komei Dempster

by Dane Hamann

Interview with Nikky Finney

by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

Interview with Brian Barker

by Aaron Delee, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Anthony Opal, and C. Russell Price

Interview with Dean Rader

by Aaron Delee, Sarah Jenkins, C. Russell Price, Lana Rakhman, Christine Pacyk, Anthony Opal, Danielle Burhop, and Dane Hamann

Interview with Beth Bachmann

by Danielle Burhop, Aaron Delee, Dane Hamann, Sarah Jenkins, Anthony Opal, Christine Pacyk, C. Russell Price, and Lana Rakhman

Selected Art

Painting — Drawing — Mixed Media

Contact

Feel free to leave a message about poetry, painting, or any other artistic inquiries.

About

Sutra Press – Q & A

Ghost City Press – What the River Made (2018); Impossible Volumes (2020); O MAD EVERYTHING (2021)

Rinky Dink Press (Series Three) – The Cold Coast

2012 Illinois Emerging Writers Competition—Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, 2nd Place
Daniel Hudson Burnham

Black-Eyed Heifer by Shelly Taylor
(TriQuarterly)

Water Puppets by Quan Barry
(TriQuarterly)

Post- by Wayne Miller
(Adroit Journal)

Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
(Whale Road Review)

Interview with B rian Komei Dempster