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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 1h

Many thanks to the editors of Moss Trill for including my poem All All #26 on their site.

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All All #26Three days after my partner cried, deepin the old ravine behind our housea coworker cried out in public,on the floor of the old libraryfor the same reason. People are gone.People are mis…

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks to the editors of Slipstream for choosing to include some work from my upcoming book The Library Poems (April Gloaming, 2028) in their new print issue.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks to Chelsea Dingman for her very kind words about my upcoming selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 6d

Please join me, @scottwoods.bsky.social, Julia Kolchinsky, and Amanda Nicole Corbin at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social on November 14th for the launch of my selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).

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Reading: Darren Demaree's "Now Flourish Northern Cardinal"

Join us as we welcome Darren Demaree to the Unicorn Stage to celebrate his new book, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal! Darren will be joined on stage by poets Julia Kolchinsky, Scott Woods, and Amanda Nicole Corbin.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 9d

Sundress Publications announces the release of Jed Myers’s e-chapbook, Anyone’s Dust, a tender and haunting meditation on war and its harrowing effects. Download your copy for free on our website today! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 10d

Snuck one father/daughter picture in during Belle’s pre-homecoming dance photoshoot.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 10d

Many thanks to @emmabolden.bsky.social for their very kind words about my upcoming selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 14d

Many thanks to Manuel Iris for the very kind words about my upcoming selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 15d

Many thanks to the editors of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social for including my poem 6/25/25 in their first issue.

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Darren C. Demaree 6/25/25There’s no comfortin the unassailable truththat America is Deathcome to conduct an exitthrough the brittle grassof humanity’s desirefor an end that resemblesa television sh…

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 17d

We're opening ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with some poetry 🌞 Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social published a poem in @pinchjournal.bsky.social with a letter and an Emily Dickinson cameo: buff.ly/DDQzepV

A white envelope with pink flowers sticking out of it.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 24d

Two pieces in the new prose poems issue of DMQ Review -- www.dmqreview.com/hueyf25

Why Is One Side of a V of Birds Always Longer? It Has More Birds in It.

Saturday and cold sunshine and a crooked checkmark of Canada geese veers low overhead noisily. They bark and glide and shape themselves: river, rope bridge, narrative arc. The goose at the foremost point — would that be crisis? climax? crossroads? whatever, the bird wearies, its turn as leader complete, slides back toward one of the ends: resolution? catalyst? It’s hard to keep track. Stories begin, they end, they overlap like seasons. The last time you touched me, I jumped. Bit my tongue. The blood warm against my teeth.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · Sep 9

I've got the finalized insides of Now Flourish if anybody is interested in reading and reviewing it. Just send me a note.

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 6

You don’t have to destroy yourself to write a poem. You can pretend you have a field in your chest. Unbutton your shirt to better hear the birds singing. Oh no what is your mom doing there. Why is she driving away in a teal car. And the trees are filled with fathers weeping.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Many thanks to the editors of @pinchjournal.bsky.social for including my new Emily as poem on their site.

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Emily as I Receive a Handwritten Letter Asking if Darren is My Dead Name — PINCH

By Darren C. Demaree Honestly, I like this reading better than the hundreds of people that have told me that they love all the poems I’ve written about Emily Dickinson. Pushing past how ...

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest! Submit up to three poems for free through September 14th for a chance to win $200 and 20 copies of your letterpress-printed broadside! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · Sep 2

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Present Tense
by Todd Dillard

My father’s telling me about his dog,
how it fell into a well
when they were walking down a wooded path.
His dog ran across some rotted planks,
the planks splintered, “And whoosh!”
my father says. “No more dog.”
I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M.
“I’m not finished,” he says.
He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket,
how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down,
and yelled for the dog to get in.
“But all I pulled up was more barking.”
“Dad,” I say. “This never happened.”
He says he can’t remember
how long he tried to get the dog
to shimmy into the bucket.
Just that at some point
when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“
as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“
he decided to give up.
“Dad,” I say. “It’s late.
I’m tired. And you’re dead.”
“Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!”
My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt
and pouring the dirt into the well.
And I know what he’s getting at, I know
he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket
he filled the well and
the dog jumped out. He’s going to say
something about how the dog
led him home through the dark.
I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.
“Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?”
I keep lowering the bucket
but all I ever pull up are leaves.
Red leaves. Lately, some gold.

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River Heron Review @riverheronreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

Submissions open today! Sometime between that burger and the corn on the cob, take a minute or two to submit to River Heron Review. Both the winter issue and the Editors' Prize are open and waiting for your poems! Link in profile.

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · Aug 29

Grateful to multigenre dynamo @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social, a writer and person I admire, for her kind words about Unrivered.

Pre-order from @sundresspub.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/4pj96v59

The first 75 pre-orders receive a mini-broadside as a thank you. (picture below).

Quote from Kathleen Rooney - author of Where Are the Snows: With wit and clarity, this book reveals the surrender and acceptance that aging, especially aging as a woman, requires, and lauds the new self that emerges within the inevitability of change." Photo of the author Donna Vorreyer on a blue background and the book cover of Unrivered.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join us in Knoxville, TN for our Retreat for Survival & Healing. This free two-day retreat for sexual assault survivors will be a safe space for creativity, generative writing exercises, discussions on ways to write trauma, advice on publishing, and more. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/retreats

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · Aug 27

Many thanks to the editors of Apocalypse Confidential for publishing my poem "4/30/25".

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“4/30/25”

Poetic lists used to require the shield& the form, the list and the catalog, rhetoric& the chaotic enumeration, the non-normal, the non-sequitur, the dynamic pivot, love& now they’re ju…

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · Aug 27

Many thanks to Laura Page for lending more of her brilliant art for another cover and for Small Harbor Publishing for putting it all together. This November, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Selected Poems 2005-2025).

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · Aug 26

Pre-orders are now available for Donna Vorreyer's fourth full-length collection, Unrivered! Save $6 off the retail price when you pre-order today! sundress-publications.square.site/product/unri...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Aug 24

Book news on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🤩 Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social signed contracts for two new books (EMILY AS AN ECHO and THE LIBRARY POEMS) with April Gloaming Publishing 🎉 We can't wait to read!

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many thanks to The Midwest Quarterly for publishing my poem Emily the Comb in Her Hair Becomes a Centipede, a poem I wrote for Zoë Brigley after reading her last book.