Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), and Candy (LSU Press, 2024), as well as the chapbooks Of Air and Earth and Circa MMXX (Unicorn Press, 2019 and 2022). His poems have appeared widely in such journals as 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also been included in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and other anthologies. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

Other poems by Dan Albergotti in Verse Daily:
June 29, 2024:   "The Day After" "Now that I live by water, I see grief..."
August 1, 2023:   "The Ghost" "In the beginning you were surely there..."
November 18, 2022:   "The Vault" "Kingsolver tells young writers to stop smoking..."
June 20, 2022:   "Of Truth and Other Fabrications" "Of all those old truths now no longer true..."
April 1, 2022:   "Anthem" "We sang the same song time and time again...."
January 31, 2022:   "Brayer" "From four fields down this morning, the Walkers' mule..."
March 9, 2021:   "Earth Shovel" "Photographed from 18,000 miles in 1972, Earth had the look..."
February 3, 2020:   "The Elect" "Like the vole, I have wandered a field..."
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" "They made a sort of music with their feet..."
August 16, 2019:   "To Sleep" "They die so many times before our eyes..."
July 6, 2019:   "Kick in the Jaw" "Sometimes the zebra wins. And the sound..."
June 24, 2019:   "Of Cowardice and Courage" "When Thomas Jefferson made his new book..."
September 26, 2016:   "Vane" "The rusted rooster spins alone these days..."
September 11, 2014:   "God" "Somewhere beneath 125th Street there's a small machine..."
November 11, 2013:   "A Theater Near You" "They say the end is coming, coming soon...."
May 7, 2008:   "Turning Back" "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
February 15, 2007:   "Surprising the Gods" "Suppose Eurydice had, running through the evening field..."

Other poems on the web by Dan Albergotti:
"Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale"
"Innocents"
"The Beetles"
"Appetite"
"Among the Things He Does Not Deserve"
Four poems
"A Poem About Nothing"
Two poems
"Reel"
"Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds"
"Outside"
Two poems
Two Poems
Twenty-one poems
"Reel"
"December 25, 2005"
"Revision"

Dan Albergotti's Website.

About Candy:

"Candy is a jawbreaker: impossible to swallow but a pleasure to savor. In its layers are the flavors of Pope, Keats, Frost, Sagan, Joy Division's Ian Curtis, but it is Dan Albergotti's astonishing formal acumen, wit, and engagement with sound that make his examination of mortality and the complexities of forgiveness so sweet."
—Ross White

"Albergotti crafts astute and thoughtful meditations on the imperfectness of life, language, and time, while skillfully displaying his natural ability to breathe new energy into established forms, including the sonnet and the abecedarian."
—January Gill O'Neil

"Albergotti is one of the best practitioners of the most musical branch of contemporary poetry. His poems always rely heavily on, and use to the fullest advantage, a musician's ear for the phrase, the line, the stanza, and the close. This is the most accomplished book yet by one of my favorite poets to read."
—Chad Davidson

"Albergotti sees into things, both darkness and light together, without the slightest quaver, and he does so with unfailing grace. Even the most brooding passages here give forth the strong sense of an acute mind and sensibility at play with the possible shapes of words in concert. The music in these poems—both alluded to and actually present in the lines—impressed me greatly. This is poetry of the highest order."
—Richard Bausch