Darren C. Demaree

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Submissions are now open for our annual poetry manuscript contests! We can’t wait to read yours. 💜💛💜💛 Enter here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

Tomorrow!

The Tension Between the Concrete and the Ethereal (written in 2011) and cravings #11 (written in 2022) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).

2 weeks until Now Flourish (book #24) comes out so I’m selling any of these 4 books for $20. Send me a note if you’d like some signed poetry sent your way.

It’s here and it everything I hoped it would be. Attaching screen shots of the oldest and newest poems from the selected here for fun. Thank you, Small Harbor Publishing!

11/14, 8pm @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social

w/ @scottwoods.bsky.social, Julia Kolchinsky, and Amanda Nicole Corbin.

Saturday Shout-Out ~ October 25, 2025 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

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Check out our new batch of lit mag and small press listings, including @rawheadjournal.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @lisasticepoet.bsky.social @turningleafjournal.bsky.social @mudseasonreview.bsky.social and more!

This Sunday!

Three poems by Darren Demaree Emily as Lamp-Lit We are two charged forces becoming ghosts & luxury, freedom & the witness of freedom. The terrible night is ours & it’s not so terrible. Give me a loose connection to …

Many thanks to the editors of @chantarellesnb.bsky.social for publishing three new Emily as poems on the website.

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Three poems by Darren Demaree Emily as Lamp-Lit We are two charged forces becoming ghosts & luxury, freedom & the witness of freedom. The terrible night is ours & it’s not so terrible. Give me a loose connection to …

We're back! Check out these three poems by @darrencdemaree.bsky.social and send us a submission while you're there!
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It’s here and it’s beautiful, @djvorreyer.bsky.social.

Yesterday was all the things. Thank you!

YouTube video by NBC4 Columbus Marion Franklin neighborhood getting standalone library branch

This is THE weekend. Ribbon cutting is at 10am tomorrow. See you there!

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Résonance - Emily as Marilyn Monroe from The Marilyn Calendar, 1952 by Darren Demaree EMILY AS MARILYN MONROE FROM THE MARILYN CALENDAR, 1952 Darren Demaree The book exists. There’s a whole artifact dedicated to Emily’s breasts. I don’t need the book. Her breasts are very much stil...

Many thanks to the editors of Résonance for including my poem EMILY AS MARILYN MONROE FROM THE MARILYN CALENDAR, 1952 in their new issue.

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COVER REVEAL MOUTH poems Amorak Huey COMING JANUARY 2026 FROM CORNERSTONE PRESS COVER PHOTO BY ERIN SCHMERR / COVER DESIGN BY ALLISON LANGE

Hey, this is fun news! Mouth, my fifth book of poems, comes out in January, and I’m delighted to share the cover —

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

Emily as Ecce Ancilla Domini by Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Darren Demaree Yellow matters. Blue matters more. I offer a flower she doesn’t want & if that’s all I can do then red will never matter. Good lord, white is a wrinkled mess. Emily wants to b…

Many thanks to the editors of @emergejournal.bsky.social for including one of my Emily as poems in their new issue.

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Darren C. Demaree 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…

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

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Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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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.

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

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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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...

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

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

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

Darren Demaree 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…

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

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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

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.

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