Dan Veach is the founder and for two decades the editor of Atlanta Review. His collection of poems and Chinese ink paintings, Elephant Water, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award. Dan's translations from Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon have won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Independent Publisher Book Award. He is the editor and co-translator of Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq (Michigan State University Press, 2008). A recipient of the Georgia Writers Lifetime Achievement Award, Dan has performed his poetry worldwide, including Oxford University, People's University in Beijing, the American University in Cairo, the Atheneum in Madrid, and the Adelaide Festival in Australia. He also plays bass clarinet and composes for concert band and orchestra.

Books by Dan Veach:

Other poems on the web by Dan Veach:
Two poems
Three poems

Dan Veach's Website.

About Lunchboxes:

"Lunchboxes invites the reader to open its lid and discover something rare these days: a truly joyous collection of poetry. Full of sharp recollections and generous wit, they range from the profound and poignant to delightfully funny and clever. Wonderfully accessible, deftly marrying magic to form, this 'lunch' is a pleasure to read and savor."
—Joan Colby

"This expansive collection stretches from the present day all the way back to the holy isle of Lindisfarne, where a mysterious Anglo-Saxon monk leaves behind a 'foolish, idle work' called Beowulf. Veach continually treats the reader to stories and imagery rich in wonderful detail, threaded with humor and surprise."
—Andrea Potos

"In Lunchboxes Dan Veach offers us the eyes and ears of a real poet. These stunning poems provide a fresh look at our everyday lives and the joys of memory. Even where there are no final answers, without fail they lead us to ask the right questions."
—David Bottoms

"I love the ease of reminiscence, depictions of our shared common ground in Gardena, CA—that town of strawberry fields, dairies, and flower farms transformed into a postwar, multi-ethnic suburb. Innocence and geniality abound here, and they abide with a timeless cache of peaches, Hostess Twinkies, and cartons of milk in lunchboxes blazoned with images of television cowboy and Disney frontier heroes by a paradisal imagination."
—Garrett Hongo