Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Danniel Schoonebeek! Danniel writes about searching for an America that may not exist, and shares an excerpt from his next book C’est La Guerre!
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Danniel Schoonebeek is the author of American Barricade (YesYes Books, 2014) and Trébuchet, a 2015 National Poetry Series selection (University of Georgia Press, 2016). A recipient of a 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from Poetry Foundation, recent work appears in Poetry, the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.