Daniel Thomas Moran

DANIEL THOMAS MORAN
Poet Laureate Suffolk County, New York 2005-2007

              Daniel Thomas Moran, born in New York City in 1957, is the author of six volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, Looking for the Uncertain Past, was published by Poetry Salzburg at The University of Salzburg in 2006. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Stony Brook University (1979) and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery from Howard University (1983). He has read widely throughout New York City and Long Island and has done readings in Ireland, Italy, Austria, Great Britain, The Library of Congress, and at The United Nations. His work has appeared in such prestigious journals as Confrontation, The Recorder, Nassau Review, Oxford, National Forum, Commonweal, Parnassus, Opium, Istanbul Literature Review, Sulfur River, Mobius Pedestal, Rattapallax, LUNGFULL, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prairie Poetry, The New York Times, The Journal of The American Medical Association, and The Norton Critical Anthology on Darwin. He was the subject of a profile on New York’s Public Television station WNET in 2006. 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 five occasions. He was profiled on New York Public Television’s Setting the Stage and on The Poet  and on 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, The International Who’s Who, 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 of The Light of City and Sea, An Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry 2006 (Street Press). His collected papers are being archived by Stony Brook University where he also serves on The Dean’s Council at The Frank Melville Library. He and his wife Karen split their time between The South End of Boston and Shelter Island, New York where he is a practicing Doctor of Dentistry.