"Divine, Divine, Divine is a gorgeous text with an operating principle of abundance. Summerhill sees his people capable of a great many things -- of loving, of uprooting the canon, of dancing along the sometimes treacherous lines of their own history. And for this, the poems within this book each have their own pair of wings. I was grateful to have this book as my own small mirror, through which I saw a fuller version of all my possibilities." -Hanif Abdurraqib
Author Biography
Daniel B. Summerhill is a poet, essayist and scholar from Oakland, CA. He is the author of two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine (2021) and Mausoleum of Flowers (2022). The inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County, Summerhill has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts and The Watering Hole. His poems and essays appear in The Academy of American Poets, Columbia, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Obsidian, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. He lives in the Bay Area and is Professor of Poetry at Santa Clara University. Daniel believes in the liberation of oppressed peoples everywhere, especially through the dissolution of empire.
