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Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
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The Slowdown
3 days ago
"If there was ever a time to think about what we know, and how we know it, it’s now,"
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
shares in episode number 1474. Read "Epistemic Distance" by
@emmabolden.bsky.social
:
bit.ly/3Pv631S
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Wild & Precious Life Series
5 days ago
Join us Wed to hear Grant Chemidlin, Chloe Yelena Miller, & Isaiah Vianese read for the WPLS.
#poetrysky
#poetrynews
#poets
#poetry
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Amorak Huey
4 days ago
If you’ll be in or near Northwest Ohio on Saturday & wanna come help me celebrate my new poetry collection, I’d love to see you—
facebook.com/events/s/amo...
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Please join me at the Marion-Franklin Branch of
@columbuslibrary.bsky.social
on March 21st (12pm-5pm) for our first History Day!
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Join me on March 26th to raise money for the Sundress Publications Light Bill Incubator Microgrant!
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Susan L. Leary
21 days ago
Sharing one of mine from MORE FLOWERS for today’s
#smallpoemsunday
!
@triohousepress.org
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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Trampoline Poetry
21 days ago
Trampoline #31.2 is excited to have poems by Francesca Leader, Georgi Bargamian, and
@darrencdemaree.bsky.social
.
www.trampolinepoetry.com
Take care.
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Trampoline Poetry
Trampoline Poetry
https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/
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Temple in a city
22 days ago
The kind of poem that makes you go ‘oh,’ and ‘ow’ and some other feels. A perfect way to open the issue.
@darrencdemaree.bsky.social
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...
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Temple in a City literary journal
Poem 5/28/25 by poet and editor Darren C. Demaree. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
https://templeinacity.com/poetry-by-darren-c-demaree/
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Matt Kendrick
22 days ago
Too short to quote, but this one has a real punch to it. Great to discover a new-to-me poet.
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Many thanks to
@trampolinepoetry.bsky.social
for publishing my poem Emily as She is Beautiful and She Laughs on their site today.
www.trampolinepoetry.com
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Trampoline Poetry
https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/
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Pat Foran
22 days ago
“We find things most beautiful in the act of their dying. Bright red leaves. A refusal to eat. The child who goes to school & the mother who drives back from school alone. …” Susan! ❤️ Snow, Almost, Nearly in More Flowers by
@susanlleary.bsky.social
, published by
@triohousepress.org
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McSweeney's
23 days ago
Bitch better have my money Bitch doesn’t see you in our invoice system Bitch is wondering if you ever sent in a W-9?
#HappyBirthdayRihanna
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rih...
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Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” Expanded for Freelancers
Bitch better have my money Bitch doesn’t see you in our invoice system Bitch is wondering if you ever sent in a W-9? Bitch isn’t seeing it Bitch is...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rihannas-bitch-better-have-my-money-expanded-for-freelancers
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Many thanks to
@templeinacity.bsky.social
for publishing my poem 5/28/25 from my No Nation-State Wants Its People to Outlive It manuscript.
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...
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Temple in a City literary journal
Poem 5/28/25 by poet and editor Darren C. Demaree. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
https://templeinacity.com/poetry-by-darren-c-demaree/
23 days ago
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Temple in a city
23 days ago
This power of this tiny
@darrencdemaree.bsky.social
poem. Quiet and chilling.
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...
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Temple in a City literary journal
Poem 5/28/25 by poet and editor Darren C. Demaree. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
https://templeinacity.com/poetry-by-darren-c-demaree/
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Got There: Poems on Vanishing (my new collection from April Gloaming Publishing) is now available for pre-order!
aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...
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Got There: Poems on Vanishing - April Gloaming Publishing
Praise for Darren C. Demaree “In Darren C. Demaree's Got There: Poems on Vanishing, the title implies arrival, but the poems are a journey, each one traveling to bring the speaker closer to rest, each...
https://aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-there-poems-on-vanishing/
25 days ago
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Cover reveal! My 25th full-length poetry collection... Got There: Poems on Vanishing Coming soon from April Gloaming Publishing
26 days ago
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A Hundred Pitchers of Honey Reading Series
about 1 month ago
Our March 26 reading is set, and it will be 🔥. Join us to hear
@dlassell.bsky.social
,
@jasonbcrawford.bsky.social
,
@janezwart.bsky.social
,
@hollicarrell.bsky.social
, & Robbi Nester read from their newest books! Register here!
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Chloe N. Clark
about 1 month ago
Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful. I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
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sarah clark (they)
about 1 month ago
It happens to be my birthday tomorrow, so if you feel inclined to help support what I do, I'm still $290 short of last year's year-end goal to keep beestung funded! 😘🐝
www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...
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Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark
What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven
https://www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-years-six-seven
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Trio House Press
about 1 month ago
More poems and inspiration from
@darrencdemaree.bsky.social
@mauchmauch.bsky.social
@debkossmann.bsky.social
and many others! Check them all out on our Virtual Vigil playlist here:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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HALSEY Literary Reader
about 1 month ago
"This work doesn’t need my name anywhere on it. This work needs me to put the name of the community I serve on the cover, and for me to show up as often as I can to help them build the next chapter."
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Many thanks to Jen Knox and Unleash Lit for publishing my little essay about working at a public library.
www.unleashlit.com/p/a-stubborn...
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"A Stubborn and Ornery Hope" by Darren C. Demaree
Mini Portraits of America: Day in the Life series
https://www.unleashlit.com/p/a-stubborn-and-ornery-hope-by-darren?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Donna Vorreyer
about 2 months ago
Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to
@jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.
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about 2 months ago
Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Loving After Loss"
@cassdonish.bsky.social
(COMP: an interdisciplinary journal) selected by Ruben Quesada on
bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/loving-after-loss/
#bestofthenetanthology
#poetrywriting
#finalist
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Trio House Press
about 2 months ago
Next up on our virtual vigil for Minneapolis:
@anamariacaballero.bsky.social
, author of Material, with a poem about immigration. So moving…thank you, Ana.
youtu.be/_fPdbLW2G8E
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Small Harbor Publishing
about 2 months ago
Did you see what’s available? 👀 T4T by Evelyn Berry is here—an electric, tender exploration of queer and trans life right now. Get your copy:
www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
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Got a new box of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. Let me know if you’d like a signed copy for $18.
about 2 months ago
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Todd Dillard
about 2 months ago
here's a poem from my book which won the Birdwhistle Poetry Prize from Noble Gas Qtrly back in the day
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Glass Poetry Press
about 2 months ago
Today on Glass! "Numbering the Days" by Erin Elizabeth Smith (
@sundresserin.bsky.social
)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
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Amorak Huey
2 months ago
Mouth, my fifth full-length collection of poetry, comes out in just over two weeks from Cornerstone Press. The press and I would be ever so grateful if you ordered a copy from them.
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Moby Dick
2 months ago
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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donoteat
2 months ago
time until listening to "this year" by the mountain goats this year: 73 hours 54 minutes
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Sundress Publications
2 months ago
Don't miss Sundress authors jason b. crawford and Ching-In Chen at Poets House 30th Showcase Reading on January 15th in NYC!
poetshouse.org/event/30th-s...
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30th Showcase Reading: Ching-In Chen, jason b. crawford, charles theonia, Nora Treatbaby
1/15: In speculative place-making of immigrant, Black, queer and utopias (imagined and real), these poets write better worlds into our own.
https://poetshouse.org/event/30th-showcase-reading-chen-crawford-theonia-treatbaby/
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Many thanks to the editors of Glint for publishing my poem Emily as Run or Tumble in their new issue.
glintjournal.wordpress.com/glint-16-dar...
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EMILY AS RUN OR TUMBLE You can’t unburn America,but you can plant new seeds,you can be ornery, you can trip & fall all over the country& be loose with your pockets& your heart, you can …
https://glintjournal.wordpress.com/glint-16-darren-c-demaree/
2 months ago
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River River Books
3 months ago
A new poem from Lauren Camp in the new double, Sweet Sixteen issue of
@sugarhousereview.bsky.social
! 📚🩷 Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here:
www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
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Lauren Camp's “As Long as I See”
In an effort to avoid verbosity, we'll put it succinctly: we love poetry. Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar Hous
https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/lauren-camps-as-long-as-i-see
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Many thanks to the editors of Salamander for including two of my Emily as poems in their new issue.
3 months ago
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Amorak Huey
3 months ago
So pleased to have this poem shared by
@slowdownshow.org
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Sundress Publications
3 months ago
The Best of the Net is now officially on BlueSky! Follow them at
@bestofthenet.bsky.social
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Sundress Publications
3 months ago
Pre-orders are now available for Burns, the debut full-length poetry collection by SG Huerta! Save $6 off the cover price when you pre-order now!
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Taking more signed copies to the post office tomorrow. Let me know if you’d like one as well.
3 months ago
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Many thanks to the editors of
@pinchjournal.bsky.social
for the opportunity to talk poetry and Emily as poems.
www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/d...
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Writer Darren C. Demaree on Poetry as “the Best Kind of Ornery” — PINCH
What do you think it means to be Pinchy? Or for a piece to be Pinchy? I think it means you don’t mind the friction of the living; that sequitur and non-sequitur, nonsense and a great hope can all be ...
https://www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/darrendemaree
3 months ago
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Many thanks to the editors of Hawaii Pacific Review for publishing A Ban, A Death #16 from my upcoming Library Poems collection (April Gloaming).
hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/12/08/a...
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A Ban, A Death #16
by Darren C. Demaree I heard you call this a history of aesthetics & you are wrong.
https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/12/08/a-ban-a-death-16/
3 months ago
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Sundress Publications
3 months ago
Your tax-deductible donation could give writers and artists an opportunity to produce work at the SAFTA residency! Support a group of writers, a genre of writers, or more! Details at:
sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/s...
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Sundress offers new fellowship donation opportunity - The Sundress Blog
Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is excited to offer a new opportunity for donors and artists to collaborate through our new Fund-a-Fellow program. SAFTA, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is an...
https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/sundress-offers-new-fellowship-donation-opportunity/
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Shaindel Beers
3 months ago
Hey, All, If you want to help a small, rural animal shelter out, please donate any amount at this link:
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
We are currently at $3,090 in donations, and the shelter an hour away is at $29,025 😬 It would mean a lot 💗
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Support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) | Valley Giving Guide
I’m ready to support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) on December 2, 2025 during Valley Giving Guide . Learn more about PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) and all the other organizatio...
https://www.valleygivingguide.org/organizations/paws-pendleton-animal-welfare-shelter
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Many thanks to the editors of pioneertown for including two of my poems in their new release.
www.pioneertownlit.com/darren-demaree
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Darren Demaree — pioneertown.
https://www.pioneertownlit.com/darren-demaree
3 months ago
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the Mountain Goats
3 months ago
people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
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They’re here! Anyone that would like a signed copy of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing) let me know. I’ll send you a copy at the cost of the book $18.
3 months ago
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Sundress Publications
3 months ago
Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres. All authors are welcome to submit manuscripts during our reading period! Submissions are free from 12/1-12/14!
www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose
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