The poems of WORKS traverse a course from the swamps of Shot’s home state of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road, with rest stops along the way to highlight striking moments encountered during his 30 plus year career as a New York City public high school teacher, and to report on the twilight years of the Beat Generation. His engaging poetry is raw, from the gut, deceptively rich and humane in the face of this increasingly post-humanistic world.

An irreverent and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification.  In The Jersey Slide, veteran poet and proud Hoboken resident Danny Shot revels in the quotidian richness of his experience as a first-generation American and child of German Jewish refugees. Recounting tall tales and inside jokes, local histories, and family sagas, the poems in this collection sidle up to you like the loquacious barfly at your local dive, revealing unexpected drama, pathos, and humor in landscapes and faces you thought you knew. Written with pugnacious language and intimate humor, The Jersey Slide celebrates the unvarnished, working-class beauty of a diverse and scrappy community.

The poems of WORKS traverse a course from the swamps of Shot’s home state of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road, with rest stops along the way to highlight striking moments encountered during his 30 plus year career as a New York City public high school teacher, and to report on the twilight years of the Beat Generation. His engaging poetry is raw, from the gut, deceptively rich and humane in the face of this increasingly post-humanistic world.

An irreverent and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrification.  In The Jersey Slide, veteran poet and proud Hoboken resident Danny Shot revels in the quotidian richness of his experience as a first-generation American and child of German Jewish refugees. Recounting tall tales and inside jokes, local histories, and family sagas, the poems in this collection sidle up to you like the loquacious barfly at your local dive, revealing unexpected drama, pathos, and humor in landscapes and faces you thought you knew. Written with pugnacious language and intimate humor, The Jersey Slide celebrates the unvarnished, working-class beauty of a diverse and scrappy community.