Available from Tebot Bach
Selected by Mark Irwin for the 2015 Patricia Bibby First Book Award, Habitat of Stones charts the borderlands between various gods and their creations: the masks and machines, stories and visions, that sometimes outstrip their inventors.
Praise for Habitat of Stones
‘In Ezra Dan Feldman’s luminously postmodern Habitat of Stones, “omens are aerial,” clouds thicken – in a deliciously precise observation – “like marble cake,” and “the arrogant man” (having “mistaken a bathtub for a grave”) discovers that love’s true catastrophe is when it brings equanimity. He hopes, in a line that gives this brilliant collection its title, “to restore the natural habitat of stones.” And thus is the poetry in this startling debut collection – clear, without giving up its mystery, ferociously whimsical, the wry and gorgeous language taking us places we’d never imagine without Feldman’s bold and capacious vision.’
— Cynthia Hogue, author of Revenance
‘Exposing patriarchal and capitalistic practices that often cripple society, Ezra Dan Feldman’s Habitat of Stones reveals the symptoms of living in a post-industrial and illusional, high-tech world: “He’s taken the world for a machine, a baby for a doll, a gun for a candy bar, which he offered to everyone. He once mistook a hammer for his own hand. Once he made love to a wall.”
‘Finally, Habitat of Stones directs us back to the natural world that recharges the human psyche, where a limb touched “touches you back / electrically; you’ll feel it moving in itself ten billion times / faster than a continental shelf.”‘
— Mark Irwin

Ezra Dan Feldman is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Williams College. His book, Habitat of Stones, was selected by Mark Irwin for the Patricia Bibby First Book Award, and is published by Tebot Bach (2017).
Upcoming:
Thursday, November 8, 2018 @ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Past:
Thursday, April 12, 2018 @ The Williams Bookstore, Williamstown, M.A.
Thursday, February 15, 2018 @ Methuselah via The Mastheads, Williamstown, M.A.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 @ Porter Square Books, Cambridge, M.A.
Friday, February 10, 2017 @ Madam’s Organ, Washington, D.C.

You can read my interview with Liza Flum at OmniVerse.
Liza Flum’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Collagist, H_NGM_N, Lambda Literary, and The Southeast Review. She teaches writing at Cornell and is a poetry editor for Omnidawn.
“Thirty emails. Hundreds of ways to get inspired.”
The Southeast Review will feature my craft talk, “Rhythms for Ending,” in their February, 2017, 30-Day Writer’s Regimen. Sign up here.
Poems
– “Sonnet for More than Knowing (We Were There)”
– “The Opposite of //”
– “The Arrogant Man (My Man)” and four others
– “Situation”
– “Lower Under”
Cider Press Review – “I Am That – ”
– “Codicil of the Arrogant Man”
– “Gods”
Prose
“There’s No Place for Gentleness in this World,” a review of Nick White’s Sweet and Low, is at Gertrude Press.
“Lenny & Frankie’s Neighborhood,” a review of Vince Sgambati’s Most Precious Blood, is at Gertrude Press.
“Lydia Davis’s ‘Happiest Moment’ and the Convoluted Temporalities of Very Short Fiction,” is at Post Road Magazine 31.
“Criscrossed Admirations Wearing Wings” (prose) is was at the .
Media
First Verse Interview with Liza Flum at OmniVerse
“Contributor Spotlight” at HFR Online