David Galef writes in 17 different directions. His day-job is professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University.
Montclair, NJ
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I'm looking forward to reading a couple of unpublished poems at this prize reading on Sunday at 1PM Central Time, as well as to hearing the other placing and winning poets! Be there and be square
Chuffed that two poems of mine have placed in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest from Poets & Patrons! No associated publication, alas, but I look forward to participating in the prize reading on October 11th and will post a link as soon as one is available.
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Just published a brief essay called "Rules of Reciprocity" in The American Scholar, and here's how it starts:
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David Galef retweeted
Vladimir Nabokov in 1910, about to depart for a Berlin roller-skating rink.
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From the Raphael exhibit at the Met: “The Babysitter Called to Say She Couldn’t Make It Tonight”
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See the link below for some poetry of mine in the latest Light and, can't resist, some of Daniel's in the same issue.
lightpoetrymagazine.com/davi…
lightpoetrymagazine.com/dani…
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Two more weeks till Vestal Review's spring submission window closes! We’d love to see what you’ve written, at least through May 15th, after which we shutter till August 1st. Spring issue out this June.
vestalreview.net/guidelines
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My latest (quite short), in the new issue of Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/feb…
I assume you've suffered this, too, right?
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Vestal Review 67 has just hit the stands, so to speak: vestalreview.net/ 18 flash fiction stories and a book review. Recommendations for specific stories, based on your astrological sign and whatever else we know about you, upon request.
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My latest novel, Where I Went Wrong, just got shortlisted for the Somerset Book Awards and snared a spot in Shelf Unbound Top 100 Best of the Indie Presses.
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Been a lot of talk recently about "restructuring" the humanities. FYAmusement: insidehighered.com/opinion/v…
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For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet).
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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We are so excited to celebrate the release today of Susan Coventry's TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN, "A true-to-life love story that illuminates an intriguing woman’s life, the life of her brilliant physician husband, and the wretched secret they share." regal-house-publishing.mybig…
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If you're in North Jersey on Saturday afternoon, September 27, and also happen to be interested in writing a novel, by all means come to the Fort Lee public library! fortleelibrary.assabetintera…
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