Daniel Thomas Moran, born in New York City in 1957, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Stony Brook University (1979) and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery from Howard University (1983). He is the author of nine volumes of poetry. A Shed for Wood was published in 2014 by Ireland’s Salmon Poetry. His eighth, Nieve de Agosto y otoros poemas, translated to the Spanish by Peruvian poet Mariela Dreyfus of New York University was also published in 2014 by Diaz Grey Editores in New York City. His sixth, Looking for the Uncertain Past, was published by Poetry Salzburg at The University of Salzburg in 2006. His collection From HiLo to Willow Pond was translated into Romanian by Iulia Gabriela Anchidin at The University of Bucharest in 2010. In 2017, Integral (Bucharest) published an English/Romanian collection, Here in the Afterlife, translated by Prof. Lidia Vianu of the University of Bucharest.
 

Only after seeing these poems selected from previous publications do we get the full scope of Moran’s faith in the world – rare and existential. I’ve been reading him for years and now have a new understanding of how a superb professional shows us who he is. These mental notes become positive vision that clearly and sheerly testify. And what is decoded for us? Revelations simple and true – childhood memories and then the child as father – all meanings intersect to tell us that living is equilibrium, energy is the force that controls it; and men of goodwill will describe glorious moments with dexterity.

Grace Cavalieri, Aug 17, Washington Independent Review of Books

Moran has read widely throughout New York City and Long Island and has given readings in Ireland, Italy, Austria, Great Britain, The Library of Congress, and at The United Nations. Some 400 individual poems have appeared in such prestigious journals as Confrontation, The Recorder, Nassau Review, Oxford, National Forum, Hawaii Pacific Review, Commonweal, Parnassus, Opium, Istanbul Literature Review, Sulfur River, Mobius, Pedestal, Rattapallax, LUNGFULL, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prairie Poetry, The New York Times, Medical Humanities Journal, Hektoen International, Literary Matters, The Journal of The American Medical Association, and The Norton Critical Anthology on Darwin, Luvere Litteraire, and Nomad’s Choir.
 
From 1997-2005 he served as Vice-President of The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills, New York where he instituted The Long Island School of Poetry Reading Series and has been Literary Correspondent to Long Island Public Radio where he hosted The Long Island Radio Magazine. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize on eleven occasions. He was profiled on New York Public Television’s Setting the Stage (which was nominated for a New York Emmy Award) and on The Poet and The Poem from The Library of Congress hosted by Grace Cavalieri. He was profiled in the 2009 edition of Poet’s Market. A selection of his poems were read in translation on Romanian Public Radio in 2008. He is a participating writer to The Password Project, an international collaboration between visual artists and writers based in Austria.
 
In 2005 he was appointed Poet Laureate by The Legislature of Suffolk County, New York, the birthplace of Walt Whitman. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese and Italian. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America (since 2000), The International Who’s Who, The Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and The International Who’s Who in Poetry. He is a member of PEN American and has been ordained a Celebrant by The American Humanist Association.
 
He edited The Light of City and Sea, An Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry 2006 (Street Press).
 
His collected papers are being archived by The Frank Melville Library at Stony Brook University. In 2007 he was inducted into The Massapequa High Schools Hall of Fame. He is a member of Irish American Writers, Inc. and the PEN American Center.
 
He retired in 2013 as Clinical Assistant Professor of General Dentistry at Boston University’s School of Dental Medicine where he gave the Commencement Address in 2011 and was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in both 2011 and 2012. He is Arts Editor of The Humanist magazine and a Director of The New Hampshire Humanities Council. He is a master maker of Windsor chairs.
 
He is the father of Lindsay, Ashley and Gregory. He and his wife Karen live in Webster, New Hampshire.
 
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