Dan Schneider (writer)

American film critic, poet, writer (born 1965)

Dan Schneider (born 1965) is an American poet and critic of literature and film who runs the criticism and literary website Cosmoetica.

Schneider runs the website Cosmoetica, which the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature included in a list of several significant Illinois based literary magazines outside of academia. New York Times poetry columnist David Orr featured the site in the 2004 article "Where to Find Digital Lit" alongside 16 other online only literary sites, including Bookslut, FanFiction. net, and Foetry. com. Schneider also publishes interviews on his site with authors, poets, scientists and others such as James Berardinelli, James Emanuel, and Chris Impey. In the introduction to a special edition of Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, Ronald Bailey noted Schneider's interview with Emanuel as an "important source" on the poet. An Emanuel quote from the interview also appeared in the poet's New York Times obituary.

Cyril Wong praised him in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, writing "I think it is high time every lover of contemporary poetry reads Dan Schneider's essays on [Cosmoetica]." Writing in The New York Times, David Orr said of Schneider and Cosmoetica: "If you were looking for someone willing to call T. S. Eliot '1 of the most grossly overrated writers in the history of the world, & the English language,' Schneider is your man. His site includes similarly jolly commentary on a large number of contemporary writers." Schneider's poetry has been praised by Waswo X. Waswo.