Darren C. Demaree (@darrencdemaree) — Bluesky Profile

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That the fact that I’m still reaching out

& up should be enough, that faith
is only faith when there's no proof.

"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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3 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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2 days ago

Amorak Huey
Mouth
Saturday March 14
2:30 pm
Gathering Volumes Bookstore, Perrysburg, Ohio

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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3 days ago

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4 days ago

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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1 week ago

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

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2 weeks ago

Some Other Girl

Has been
asked to watch
my belongings.
She is every
substitute
for handsome.
Girlhood, subject
to assemblage.
When I return,
two sets
of nightclothes
are laid out
on a bench.
Snow rippling
across a pair
of scissors.
In class, the girl
& I learn
the world
inside the world
is flourishing.
A girl suffers.
Form suffers.

Sharing one of mine from MORE FLOWERS for today’s #smallpoemsunday!

@triohousepress.org
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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2 weeks ago

Trampoline Poetry Trampoline Poetry

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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2 weeks ago

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.

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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2 weeks ago

Thank you for reading.

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2 weeks 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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2 weeks ago

Trampoline Poetry Trampoline Poetry

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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago

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...

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!
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rih...

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3 weeks ago

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.

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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3 weeks ago

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.

This power of this tiny @darrencdemaree.bsky.social poem. Quiet and chilling.
templeinacity.com/poetry-by-da...

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3 weeks ago

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...

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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3 weeks ago

Cover reveal!

My 25th full-length poetry collection...

Got There: Poems on Vanishing

Coming soon from April Gloaming Publishing

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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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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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1 month ago

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

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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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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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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1 month ago

"A Stubborn and Ornery Hope" by Darren C. Demaree Mini Portraits of America: Day in the Life series

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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1 month 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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1 month ago

Loving After Loss
“all night long, the curtain was pulled back
and dawn drew me toward it, through the dark hours
in which, missing you, and feeling the strangeness
of missing you along with her, i swarmed above the pages
of a book searching for a lost syntax that could lead me
to this new form of desire, desire after obliteration,
i shouldn’t overstate this, the death of myself
when she died, i shouldn’t overstate it:
obliteration”
Cass Donish (comp: an interdisciplinary journal)
best of the net 2025: poetry selection
@bestofthenetanthology

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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month ago

Got a new box of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. Let me know if you’d like a signed copy for $18.

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1 month ago

Love Poem to My Brother as He Gives My Father a Shave

Bending over the hospital bed,
my brother brings a blade
to my father's cheek,
hauls its edge across
those iron stalks, erasing
thick froth, dense cream,
rinsing the razor in a pink bowl,
then again, metal pressed
to skin, that sound,
follicle scraped from flesh,
like tearing open
an envelope—its letter
good news—it says
you are alive
and the ones who love you
most are here, touching
your knuckles, wrist,
as if there grows on the body
a kind of Braille—
and in this way
my brother harvests the past
week, reaps it
from the wildling field
of my father's cheek,
and who could not help
but fall a little in love
with one so capable
as to be able to cull time
from flesh, a man
who then tenderly presses
a damp towel to the jaw
of another warm and living man
and says, "You look good,"
and does not want
anything in return
besides the next breath
shaped into a “see you
next week.”

Second page of the poem, starting with the line "and in this way." The entire poem is in the alt text of the first image.

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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