Daniel Blokh is a 16-year-old American-Jewish writer with Russian immigrant parents, living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the memoir In Migration (BAM! Publishing 2016) and the chapbook Holding Myself Hostage In The Kitchen (Lit City Press 2017). His work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing awards and the Foyle Young Poet awards, and has appeared in The Kenyon Review, DIALOGIST, Permafrost, Blueshift, Cleaver, Gigantic Sequins, Forage Poetry, Avis, Thin Air, Cicada, and more. He's bad at taking naps. He really needs a nap right now.

Books by Daniel Blokh:

Other poems on the web by Daniel Blokh:
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Dare Game"
"A Moving Vehicle May Spin Out Of Your Control At Any Time"
Two poems
Four poems
"What Fire Trucks Stop For and What They Don't"
"To Salt"
"Three Shots Through The Window of A Synagogue In Indiana"
Four poems
"Family Portrait with Lost Map"
"A Trembling of Finches"

Daniel Blokh's Website.

Daniel Blokh on Twitter.

About grimmening:

"The poems in Daniel Blokh's chapbook, grimmening, have been following me everywhere. Like the moon, these poems 'can find a river/in anyone.' I didn't know how badly I needed these poems. I was immediately taken with how careful and tender Blokh is with his language. I could read these poems over and over and discover something new every time. I can't wait to see what this poet will give us in the future, but for now, we are so so lucky to have grimmening."
—Hieu Minh Nguyen

"Daniel Blokh is a poet of surreality, mystery, and wonder. In deft poems that startle and engage, Blokh shows us a 'world [that] learns to bend under a bloody horizon', a world in which 'the sky turns red / and prays for curtains.' These poems make me excited for both the future and the now of poetry—they demand to be read and reflected upon every bit as much as they deserve to be."
—Peter LaBerge

"In grimmening, Daniel Blokh writes blood, bone, family and identity with exact and exacting verse. These poems bite—they teach us 'how the world / learns to bend under a bloody horizon,' the way to '[stitch] the sun into [your] chest.' In this stunning collection, Blokh's poems are urgent and careful, tight in verse but expansive in thought. Blokh shows us that he knows his way around a poem, and that the world grows more beautiful and more complicated when seen through a poet's glimmering eye."
—Ashley M. Jones