Frame Inside a Frame: An Afternoon with Poet Daniel Lassell

Join us for a poetry reading by Daniel Lassell. A signing will follow, with books available for purchase.
Daniel Lassell is the author of Frame Inside a Frame (TRP: The University Press of SHSU, 2025) and Spit (Wheelbarrow Books, 2021), winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize; as well as two chapbooks, Ad Spot (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2021) and The Emptying Earth (Madhouse Press, 2023).
Frame Inside a Frame has been named a finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book Award in Poetry. Spit won the 2022 Midwest Book Awards Gold Award for a Poetry Debut, the Reader Views’ 2021-2022 Literary Gold Award in Poetry, and the Inside Scoop Live Award for the Most Innovative Book of Poetry; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 Best Book Awards, the 2021 American Writing Awards, the 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award, and the 2022 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award. Both Spit and his chapbook, Ad Spot, received honorable mentions for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. The Emptying Earth was named a finalist for the 2024 Medal Provocateur Award and received an honorable mention for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Awards.
Lassell’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Cortland Review, Third Coast, Poet Lore, Arkansas International, Birmingham Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Cherry Tree, Denver Quarterly, Diode, and elsewhere. His poems have also been anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest, Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose, and A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia.
Growing up, Lassell raised llamas and alpacas on a farm in Eminence, Kentucky. Today, he lives with his wife and children in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his MA in English from Marshall University. In addition to his poetry and creative writing, he has written professionally for several companies, such as Exo, InterVision, Bluelock, and Angie's List. He currently sells steel buildings for a company based in the midwest.
Please register at www.pspl.org/event/lassell. For more information, contact Megan Pickett at (502) 352-2665 x108 or megan.pickett@pspl.org.