Ezra Dan Feldman (Harvard ’02, Cornell MFA ’07) is a Ph.D. student in English at Cornell University. Born in Cambridge, MA, he was raised on Genesis and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,†The Westing Game and the Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor.
Ezra’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the Harvard Review, the Los Angeles Review, DIAGRAM, Gertrude, PANK, and Newfound. His poetry manuscript, The Body as One, has been a finalist for numerous book prizes. His writing is about distinctions, from the fundamental to the speculative, and about the human inventions that most resist our distinguishing them from ourselves: “I want to think about where the root ends and the soil begins, when and how day becomes night, and whether the bacteria in my gut are really not me.â€