News

Dan’s translation of Central American Book of the Dead by Balam Rodrigo is one of six finalists for the 2024 National Translation Award in Poetry. See the announcement here and the judges’ citation here.

New Work

Counting (2023): A chapbook of poems counting and recounting days in a life, ranging from yearning, elegy and political outrage to passion, devotion, and gratitude. From Finishing Line Press.

Central American Book of the Dead (2023), by Balam Rodrigo, translated by Dan Bellm. These poems, spoken in the voices of Central American migrants and refugees living and dead, journeying through Mexico to the north, are a testament and witness to a great exodus of our time. Winner of the Aguascalientes Prize, Mexico’s highest poetry award. From FlowerSong Press.