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Poet – Writer – Editor
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Danny Shot’s WORKS (New and Selected Poems) was published in March 2018 by CavanKerry Press (https://www.cavankerrypress.org/product/works/) and his new collection of poetry The Jersey Slide will make its debut in the fall of 2025 also from CavanKerry Press (https://cavankerrypress.org/products/the-jersey-slide/). His prose, collected in Night Bird Flying was published in February 2025 by Roadside Press (https://roadsidefam.com/). He was longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick, NJ. Danny is a proud New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (2024 – Lifetime). He spent over 30 years as a NYC public high school teacher, serving in the South Bronx, Harlem, and Brooklyn. Danny lives in Hoboken, NJ (home of Frank Sinatra and baseball) where he is the poet-in-residence of the Hoboken Historical Museum.
Born in the Bronx and raised in Dumont, NJ by German Jewish refugees, Danny graduated Rutgers College in 1980 with a B.A. in English. Shot’s poetry has appeared in: bum rush the page (Def Poetry Jam), Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt), and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth), Places We Return To (CavanKerry) among other anthologies and numerous journals.