Many thanks to the editors of BlazeVox for including my poem All All #50 in their new issue. static1.squarespace.com/static/66627...

Got There: Poems on Vanishing (from April Gloaming Publishing) out now! aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...

Many thanks to the editors of Literary Underground for including five Emily as poems on their site today. theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/05...

POEM 334: "Emily as an Oddly Built Temple" by Darren C. Demaree (@darrencdemaree.bsky.social) "Belief is squishy. Spring begins before rain can mark the path past the fallen oak that could not survive the winter. I look for Emily" stonecirclereview.com/emily-as/ #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Many thanks to the editors of @stonecirclereview.bsky.social for including my poem Emily as an Oddly Built Temple on their site today. stonecirclereview.com/emily-as/

Many thanks to the editors of J Journal for including my poem Emily as a Disruptive and Meditative Work in their new issue. www.jjournal.org/post/emily-a...

Many thanks to Louisiana Literature for including a few poems from my upcoming Library Poems collection (April Gloaming, 2028) in their new issue.

“I lost the ability to write a poem about her that worked like a knife through other people’s reality. It’s hybrid art now. …” @darrencdemaree.bsky.social with 2 Emily poems in @upthestaircase.bsky.social www.upthestaircase.org/darren-c-dem...

Many thanks to the editors of The Closed Eye Open for including my poem Emily as Ten Little Moons in their new issue.

Many thanks to the editors of Book of Matches for including one of the poems from my Creek Bed Meditations sequence in their new issue. online.fliphtml5.com/qoqiq/Issue-...

Many thanks to the editors of @upthestaircase.bsky.social for including two of my Emily as poems in their new issue. www.upthestaircase.org/darren-c-dem...

Many thanks to the editors of @puertodelsolpoet.bsky.social for including my poem All All #67 in their fantastic new print issue.

It's Book Day! My 25th full-length collection, Got There: Poems on Vanishing, is out today from April Gloaming Publishing. aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...

7pm tonight! youtube.com/live/ohouwKS...

Going to the post office on Tuesday if anyone would like a signed copy of one of these.

Two days until Got There: Poems on Vanishing will be released! aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...

Got There: Warm and Cold Air from Got There: Poems on Vanishing (coming out 4/28 from April Gloaming Publishing).

Got There: It's Never Going to Stop from Got There: Poems on Vanishing (out on 4/28 from April Gloaming Publishing).

Thank you all for being great!

Got There: Cake from April Gloaming Publishing (out on 4/28/26).

Many thanks to Exclamation Mark for publishing three Emily as poems in their new issue. exclamationmarklit.com/3-poems/

Next Sunday: April Gloaming's Sunset Salon

ICYMI: Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social's poem EMILY AS THE TUMBLING PLACE was published in the White Wall Review! 👏 🔥 buff.ly/d5aDR7K

Less than two weeks until my 25th full-length collection, Got There: Poems on Vanishing comes out from April Gloaming Publishing. aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...

Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social has a new collection coming out on 28 Apr from April Gloaming Publishing. Get it here:

“Let us join hands in praise of the shablam, the milkshake, for every shield of leather & tulle & fishnet.” Excerpt from "Draglesque Prayer for the Gays and Theys Backstage at the Gig" by @ritamookerjee.bsky.social from Winter 2025 Online Exclusives. buff.ly/gEbDuqK #writingcommunity #writersky

Tonight!

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

Many thanks to @sanantoreview.bsky.social for publishing my poem "All All #72" on their website. sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/02/a...

“I thought songs of peace were worth a life.” A stark, urgent poem confronting war, identity, and what it means to count. Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/02/a... #poetry #politics #writing #peace #literature #war

Get your tickets! Join me and MK Chavez in honoring and celebrating these four outstanding poets at Grace Cathedral on 22 April during National Poetry Month ✨❤️ www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-note...

Rhapsody & Refrain starts tonight at Streetlight Guild. So many friends and brilliant poets reading these next two weeks. I read on 4/8, but every night will be incredible. Get to as many as you can. streetlightguild902558154.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/r...

Many thanks to the editors of Pasticheur for including three of my Emily as poems in their new release. the-pasticheur.com/issues/vol-5...

Heading to the post office tomorrow with signed copies of Now Flourish. Let me know if you’d like one.

They want the people / I serve to be dead people

Tonight is the night!

Today is the day! I'll see you all at the Marion-Franklin Branch of @columbuslibrary.bsky.social.

Now available ✨ The Constant Hum of Elsewhere by Jen Rouse Hallucinatory, vulnerable, darkly humorous poems that wander dreamscapes and question the faith we place in doctors, therapists, and lovers. Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/the-co...

Many thanks to the editors of @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social for including my poem 4/6/25 (from my No Nation-State Wants Its People to Outlive It manuscript) in their new issue. www.birdcoatquarterly.com/post/darren-...

This week is the week!

"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

Join us Wed to hear Grant Chemidlin, Chloe Yelena Miller, & Isaiah Vianese read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry

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...

Please join me at the Marion-Franklin Branch of @columbuslibrary.bsky.social on March 21st (12pm-5pm) for our first History Day!

Join me on March 26th to raise money for the Sundress Publications Light Bill Incubator Microgrant!

Sharing one of mine from MORE FLOWERS for today’s #smallpoemsunday! @triohousepress.org @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Trampoline #31.2 is excited to have poems by Francesca Leader, Georgi Bargamian, and @darrencdemaree.bsky.social. www.trampolinepoetry.com Take care.

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...

Too short to quote, but this one has a real punch to it. Great to discover a new-to-me poet.