Teaching
Dan Bellm is available for poetry readings; poetry manuscript consultation and critique, and teaching of poetry and literature. Particular areas of expertise are: 20th-century and contemporary poetry, translation, poetry and politics, Latin American poetry and fiction, LGBT writing, Jewish American and Israeli poetry, and Biblical literature and interpretation.

Dan currently teaches The Art of Translation for the Antioch University Los Angeles M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program, Spanish to English Literary Translation for the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and poetry tutorials and a course on Writing and Midrash (Biblical interpretation) for Glen Online Workshops, sponsored by the journal Image, in Seattle.

Readings

Saturday, March 10, 2012
3:00-5:00 p.m.
A reading by Dan Bellm and Sandra M. Gilbert, for PEN West
At the home of PEN West president Brenda Webster, in Berkeley CA
Contact me for information about location


Click here for a 30-minute video of a reading given in the Lunch Poems series, introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, at the University of California, Berkeley, on February 4, 2010.

Dan has given readings of poetry and translation at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference (Vancouver, Canada); Beyond Baroque (Venice, Calif.); Cleveland State University; Dartmouth College; Dominican University; Litquake (San Francisco); the Los Angeles Poetry Festival; Mills College; the 92nd St. Y (New York); the San Francisco State University Poetry Center; University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; and numerous bookstores, libraries, and community centers in northern California, Atlanta, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Washington, and elsewhere in the United States.