Daniel Bosch
Director, Verse

Daniel Bosch has been Director of the Writing Studio at Walnut Hill since 2003.  Raised in California, he wrote his first verse at age five, and as a young man was active in skateboarding, wrestling, and boxing. He holds an M.A. in Writing & Publishing from Boston University and a B.A. in Literature from New College of Florida. 

His poems, translations, and reviews appear in magazines such as Poetry, The New Republic, Slate, Partisan Review, Agni, Poetry Daily, Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Harvard Review, where he was Poetry Editor for issues 19 and 20.  His set of four poems riffing on the films of Tom Hanks won the first Boston Review Poetry Prize (1998), and his book Crucible was published by Handsel Books in 2002.  Daniel also has published translations of works by Eugenio Montale (one of which was included in the Penguin Montale in English) and César Vallejo.  He is a staff writer for Contemporary Poetry Review.

He has taught at Boston University, the Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School, and United South End Settlements in Boston. For six years he was Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University (where he was awarded the Henry Dunster Prize for Excellence in Tutoring).  In 2006 he was awarded the E.E. Ford Prize for Exceptional Merit by his peers at Walnut Hill.

Read Daniel’s poem “Death’s Doorman” here.