Don Platt
Professor, Department of English
| Education: | Ph.D., University of Utah, 1995 |
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| Office: | HEAV 311B |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43727 |
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| Specializations: | Creative writing with emphasis on poetry; Twentieth-Century Poetry |
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Donald Platt (Ph.D., University of Utah, 1995) is the author of four volumes of poetry:
Dirt Angels (forthcoming from New Issues Press in 2009),
My Father Says Grace (Arkansas University Press, 2007),
Cloud Atlas (Purdue University Press, 2002), and
Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns (Purdue University Press, 1994). His fine-press, limited-edition chapbook
Leap Second at the Turn of the Millennium was published in 1999 by the Center for Book Arts in New York City. His poems have appeared in many journals, including
The New Republic, Nation, Paris Review,
Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares,
TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ironwood, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Notre Dame Review, Nimrod International Journal, Epoch, Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Cream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, BOMB Magazine, William and Mary Review, Meridian, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Quarterly West, Green Mountains Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Chelsea, Black Warrior Review, Seneca Review, New England Review, Western Humanities Review,
Field, Iowa Review, Southwest Review, and
Southern Review, as well as in
The Best American Poetry 2000 and
2006 and in
The Pushcart Prize XXVII and
XXIX (the 2003 and 2005 editions). His poems have also been republished on the websites at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/
The Nation Prize, two Verna Emery Poetry Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. A full professor in Purdue University’s English Department, he offers courses in the writing of poetry at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
