Daniel Borzutzky

Biography

Daniel Borzutzky’s most recent poetry collection is The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House, 2024). His poetry collection The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts, 2016) received the National Book Award.

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FICTION

Love in the Time of Data Fascism

By Daniel Borzutzky ,  Illustration by Helena Pallarés

Today I count the number of times I unlock my phone. I have opened my phone 473 times today. Is this a lot? Do other people count how many times they look at their phones? What does this mean? What does this say about me? Often, I unlock my...

Illustration of contorted man in red counting tiles on the floor.
POETRY / Fall 2017

Lake Michigan, Scene 0

By Daniel Borzutzky

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house asking questions about the boy they shot twenty-two times 

There are seven of us in front of the mayor’s house screaming about how the videotape of the shooting was covered up so that the...