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Darren C. Demaree
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Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
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All All #21

Read the full piece, and another from this beautiful series by Darren in our latest issue, at www.lampLit.net

Submissions for our Winter 2026 are open now!
#poetry #prose #lamplitmag
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Send me a note if you'd like to join me for this end of the year workshop.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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today is my birthday, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than having a new poem out in Burial Magazine! infinite gratitude to Z. H. Gill for giving this one a beautiful home :) 🙏
Eleven Beers by Tom Snarsky Whenever Sid would drink, he would drink Eleven beers. This created some logistical Problems, including a bad stomach and no Driver’s license, but one advantage was the One beer left over from the twelve-pack: Sid would save the flimsy paperboard from One of the twelve-packs, slowly filling it with Survivors, though their survival was only Temporary. Then when it was filled up All the way Sid would go out to the lake, Drink eleven beers, and instead of saving One like usual he would open the last beer And pour it into the water, where the little Bluegill would be visibly confused in the Shallows. One time, driving home from the Lake, Sid didn’t notice the blue heron in the Right lane, standing, but since he’d swerved So far over the midline anyway the bird, Instead of being killed, flew safely away.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Got room for one more.

Send me a note if you're interested.
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Check out these upcoming winter readings for Donna Vorreyer's collection Unrivered! #sundresspublications #poetry #poetryreadings #poetryevents
Winter reading events for Donna Vorreyer
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of Gambling the Aisle for including my poem All All #11 on their site.

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All All #11 by Darren Demaree — Gambling the Aisle
Every sunset is bloody. Nations just wait for fireworks to pop off
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November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Join @djvorreyer.bsky.social and I on December 1st for a reading and conversation about Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of the White Wall Review for including my poem Emily as the Tumbling Place on their site.

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Emily As The Tumbling Place – White Wall Review
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November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!
Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of @lamplitmag.bsky.social for including two poems from my All All sequence in their new issue.

So many friends and great pieces in this one. You can read the whole issue here:

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November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thank you to @lamplitmag.bsky.social editors Jaime Lilley & Michael C for publishing “Straight People (Often) Don’t Get It” in the fall issue.

I’m in good company. Shoutout to @toddedillard.bsky.social & @darrencdemaree.bsky.social!!

#poetrysky #poetrynews #poem #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Never forget.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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JUST RELEASED! ✨
Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of extraordinary work from one of today’s most prolific Ohioan poets.

Order your copy today:
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November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Tonight (8pm) is the night!

Please join me, @scottwoods.bsky.social, Julia Kolchinsky, and Amanda Nicole Corbin at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social for the launch of my selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Join us TODAY for this release reading event! RSVP on facebook or register on zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you soon!
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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It’s Book Day!

My selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Selected Poems 2005-2025) is officially available!

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Now Flourish Northern Cardinal by Darren C. Demaree — Small Harbor Publishing
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November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Tonight!
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of Packingtown Review for including my poem Emily as The Two Sisters by Théodore Chassérieau in their new issue.

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"Emily as <em>The Two Sisters</em> by Théodore Chassérieau" by Darren C. Demaree | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts
Poetry:
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Tomorrow night is the online book launch of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal!
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Many thanks to the Flint Hills Review for including my poem Emily as Yellow Flowers at the Baptism in their new issue.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Many thanks to Barton Smock for reading and reacting to Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).

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words toward Darren C Demaree’s ‘Now Flourish Northern Cardinal’ (selected poems 2005-2025, Small Harbor Publishing (2025))
Now Flourish Northern Cardinalselected poems 2005-2025, Darren C DemareeSmall Harbor Publishing, 2025Addiction is the breadcrumb that the body follows to wine. I don’t know what this turns into. Da…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Yay, poetry 💗 Check this out from @darrencdemaree.bsky.social . #poetry
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Shari’s Lemon Sour Cream Blueberry Pie (written in 2018 for @shaindelr.bsky.social ) and if there is a river #55 (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Shari’s Lemon Sour Cream Blueberry Pie (written in 2018 for @shaindelr.bsky.social ) and if there is a river #55 (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
The book of poems Unrivered, by Donna Vorrreyer. Sundress Publications, 2025 Skeleton Key My ribs pick-up sticks, my skull a bowl for cherry pits and pyrite, a cauldron to simmer the marrow into song. The teeth from my jawbone strung like pearls with a clasp of hammer and anvil, adorning my laddered neck. Beneath the leaded apron, with each thunk of exposure, hymns are humming. After, the machine shows me arranged in the usual way, and the doctor reads the film. Minor lapses in density. Arthritic calcifications. Small fissures and lesions. But he doesn't know the real story. I must break the language to tell it myself: Once upon a time there was a girl whose skin was jeweled, whose sentences were filled with bones and ghosts.
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM