Robin Rosen Chang

The Curator's Notes
Terrapin Books, 2021
$14.92

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The Curator’s Notes, my debut full-length poetry collection, engages a variety of artifacts from art and the natural world to curate memory and different lived experiences. It also explores how identity, particularly feminine self-image, is shaped by family and collective mythologies. The speaker interrogates the portrayal of Eve in the Creation story, using it as a lens to examine some of her own relationships. Loss, beauty, and love emerge as central themes throughout the collection.

Poems read:
“Riptide"
“Pears"
“When My Husband Says Something About Desire"

Chloe Yelena miller

Viable
Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021
$16.00

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Viable is memoir in verse. The poetry collection follows a mother through a miscarriage, difficult pregnancy, and postpartum depression. The poems lean on Italian and English grammar and vocabulary, recipes and the natural world. Grief and physical pain follow the mother through the pregnancy, Caesarean section, recovery and early parenthood. She learns to navigate her new body and emotions as well as the growing relationship with her child. This book gives voice to a usually silent experience.

Poems read:
“Carrying”
“Fabric Book Emotions”
“Fog”
“Late Apology”
“Physical Apology”
“Your Creation Story”

erin rodoni

And If the Woods Carry You
Southern Indiana Review Press, 2021 $16.95

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My book explores motherhood and childhood in a world on the verge of climate catastrophe through motifs of fairy tale and myth. “Lullaby With Fireflies and Rising Seas" sets up many of the book's themes. “Oh Artemis" addresses the Greek goddess of the hunt, famed for her refusal of all suitors. “Eve, Alone" is a part of a poem sequence called “Parable of the Bull," with an epigraph from Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn: “They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints."

Aja Couchois duncan

Vestigial
Litmus Press, 2021
$18

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I’m reading the beginning of Trilling, the last section of Vestigial. So the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning. The book is a love story, a love that is both human and animal, for the earth, between land and sky. In Trilling the many tributaries of the book come together, they converge and flood. Vestigial can best be read outside, laying naked on the dirt. Or crouched in an aviary. Or lying beneath the moon in a wooden vessel. Or anyplace you can best hear the percussive resonance of your life on earth.

Carlo Matos

We Prefer the Damned
Unbound Edition Press, 2021
$22

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We Prefer the Damned, the 11th book from Carlo Matos, features poems exploring bisexual relationships, erasure, and denial. Matos pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in We Prefer the Damned weave his Portuguese-American heritage and bi+ lived experience. Through language turned and punctuated in fresh ways, Matos finds the structures and syntax to embrace past and present, old self and new self. His toughness as a former MMA fighter turns to the finessed strength of rigorous self-examination.

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Rena J. Mosteirin

Experiment 116
Counterpath Press, 2021
$25

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Experiment 116 is a book made up of machine translations of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116.” Each poem begins in the Shakespearean English and is translated into two, sometimes three, target languages and then back to English. The titles of these reflect the languages I used when translating the poem down what we might think of as a language path. I begin with “Sonnet 116” in the original Shakespearean English, and then read the following:

→ Hindi → Yoruba →
→ Arabic → Hungarian →
→ Estonian → Sindhi →
→ Maltese → Tajik →
→ Samoan → Ukrainian → Telugu →

Mary Lou Buschi

Paddock
Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021
$18.00

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Paddock is structured like a play. The collection follows two girls on a quest for a mother while exploring hope's unrelenting Tick. This is my second full-length collection.

Poems read:

“Chorus"
“They Set Off"
“Twilight"
“Girl 1"
“Chorus"
“Night Swimming"

Kelly R. Samuels

All the Time in the World
Kelsay Books, 2021
$18.50

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“When Water"
“Peat Bogs, Burning"
“Milkweed & the Monarch" “Instructions for Henderson Island"

former DMQ Review Contributor

Shannon K. Winston

The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
Glass Lyre Press, 2021
$16

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The Girl Who Talks to Paintings is an ekphrastic collection that conceives of ekphrasis as a type of translation: as a movement between images and words, as well as between lived and imagined experiences. These poems dramatize visual art personas who come alive and become confidants for speakers who are too timid to express themselves otherwise. Artwork becomes an entry point and a catalyst for self-exploration and self-discovery. At its core, The Girl Who Talks to Paintings explores many intertwined themes, including gender and sexuality, family, loss, and language.

Kelly cressio-moeller

Shade of Blue Trees
Two Sylvias Press, 2021
$17

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Shade of Blue Trees is my first collection. The collection is an exploration of many types of grief and how grief (and, therefore, love) forces us to map our losses onto the known world, by way of deep imagery, myth, and language—both transforming and conjuring, very much rooted in the natural world, particularly the Northern Californian coast. It’s heavy on imagery and heart. I’m reading four poems from this collection:

“Meditations on Disappearing” “Begin & End at Big Sur”
“Departure”
“Something to Remember”

Leanne dunic

One and Half of You
Talonbooks, 2021
$16.95

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One and Half of You is a memoir that took years to find it's form, finally settling on a collection of poems with a musical score. The untitled poems explore bi-racial/bisexual identity, love, racism, and gentrification, as experienced by me, growing up in a rural part of British Columbia. The book is divided into three sections, each one with a corresponding song (which you can listen to here). This is my second full-length poetry collection.

T.J. sandella

Ways to Beg
Black Lawrence Press, 2021
$17.95

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The poems in Ways to Beg are in constant conversation. They speak to and of each other, to ancestors, gods, pets, strangers on planes, and, most often, directly to the reader. Their aim is mutual inquiry. They want to swap stories and jokes and secrets, to stay up all night, refilling your beverage of choice, diligently pursuing the unsaid, the unsayable. In short, they want to ask the right questions. To deliberate how we’ve come to inhabit our bodies, our families, our grief, our country, our planet—and how we intend to make good on that lonesome and curious responsibility.

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Jeff Friedman

The Marksman
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020
$15.95

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The Marksman, my eighth book, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to target what it means to survive and live in our troubled times.

I’m reading four poems from this collection:
“What Happened to the Country” “The Marksman”
“Zero”
“What My Father Heard”

Forrest gander

Twice Alive
New Directions Publishers, 2021
$16.95

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These poems are influenced by Sangam literature (The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a classical Tamil Anthology, trans. by A.K. Ramanujan), by ecopoetics, by the writers Brenda Hillman, Stuart Cooke, John Kinsella, Arthur Sze, Coral Bracho, Jorie Graham, Dan Beachy-Quick, Camille Dungy, et. al.

Daniel Lassell

Spit
Wheelbarrow Books, 2021
$15.95

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Set on a llama farm, Spit examines the boundaries of “home” and the roles we play within the act of belonging.

Poems read:
“How to Pet a Llama”
“Mom Woke to a Coyote Staring in Her Window”
“The Way Home”
“The Light and Where It Lives”

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

justin jannise

How to Be Better by Being Worse
BOA Editions, 2021
$17

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Many of the poems in How to Be Better by Being Worse involve various aspects of queer culture, especially drag. “Falling As Adele," for example, recounts the speaker's falling in love with a man on Halloween while dressed as the famed British pop star, while “Flamingosexual" proclaims the speaker's acceptance of his own particular breed of femininity, sexuality, and fierce wit.

In this clip, Jannise reads two other essentially queer poems—“An Extra Heart" and "Wigs Everywhere”—while peeling back the curtain on his drag makeup and costume routine.

Alice jones

Vault
Apogee Press, 2020
$18.95

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Reading “Spell" and a section of “Limit."

thomas R. Smith

Storm Island
Red Dragonfly Press, 2020
$18

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Poetry, like music, is an art in and of time. Storm Island's central concern and obsession is time, often viewed through the lens of aging, not only of individuals but of countries, whether gracefully or not.

The poems I've chosen are:
1) Impressionist Calendar: My take on the old calendrical poem ala John Clare
2) “To Krista Sleeping:” A love poem 3) “Note to Self:” This can be about whoever you think it's about.
4) “Monarch with a Torn Wing:” A tribute to Red Dragonfly Press publisher and small press giant Scott King who died unexpectedly in April.

Peter Grandbois

Triptych: The Three-Legged World
Etruscan Press, 2020
$18

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Prose Poems Read:
[Why not this other dream]
”Someone lit my memory on fire”
[My body haunts itself]
[Hollowness seeps in when I wake] “The ballet of the broken”

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

james McCorkle

Triptych: In Time
Etruscan Press, 2020
$18

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“Fox-Sparrow,” in its four unnumbered sections, draws on the landscapes of western New York, and the watersheds of the Delaware and Susquehanna. Many of the poems in In Time circle around themes of migration, habitat, temporal processes, and dislocation—“Fox-Sparrow” does as well. The poem is also a conversation across time and landscape with the T’ang Dynasty poet Wei Ying-wu, with several lines adapted from Red Pine’s translations from In Such Hard Times (Copper Canyon, 2007). The poem is built as a series of accumulations.

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robert miltner

Triptych: Orpheus & Echo
Etruscan Press, 2020
$18

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Orpheus & Echo breaks the boundary of narrative, fractures dreams, deranges time, and riffs on myths and muses as Orpheus and his backup band, Echo, leave Samothrace Island, descend into a recording studio to cut an album, then tumble into the fallen underworld world of Las Vegas where he discovers solace. “The gorgeous music in Orpheus & Echo,” says Kathleen McGookey, “is made of lush, precise images, and phrases that transform themselves into stunning riffs through repetition and variation.”

Poems read:
“Orpheus: invocation to the muses” “studio session [sound check]” “Orpheus in Vegas [dream song]”

Dane cervine

The World Is God's Language
Sixteen Rivers Press, 2021
$16

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If we imagine the world as a flipbook, each page merging into coherence as it flutters through time, it can be discomfiting to try and apprehend a single, discrete moment frozen in the cascade. That is why Dane Cervine’s poems often create a sense of vertigo as the reader is lifted out of the surge of a fractious reality and given an opportunity to contemplate distinct moments isolated from the clamor and roar. Cervine reveals a sanctified world built of memory, history, and grace, transient but eternal, and where, Cervine makes clear, we are “just visiting.”

—Gary Young

kim hamilton

Calling Through Water
Tebot Bach, 2020
$17.00

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“Ode to Rhubarb”
“Swimming in a Foreign Language” “Tourist Map”
“Adoration of the Wings”

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

hayden saunier

A Cartography of Home
Terrapin Books, 2021
$16.00

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“Kitchen Table”
“After the Press Conference”
“A Cartography of Home”

A Cartography of Home gathers itself around ideas of habitation, home, place, real and imagined geographies of self and world, and the myriad connections and contradictions among them all. I've weathered the past five years on a 40 acre farm and this has been (and continues to be) an incredible world of gifts every day.

Denise Duhamel

Second Story
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
$17

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Denise Duhamel reads “Swedish Death Cleaning" and “Grand Finale" from Second Story. Both these poems deal with mortality.

(former DMQ Review Featured Poet)

Rebecca Morgan

Frank

Oh You Robot Saints!
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021
$15.95

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“Creation”
“The Mechanical Eves"
“Monk Automaton, c. 1560” “Mechanical Tortoise with Triton Rider, 17th century”

Want to see some of these automata? Virtually visit the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to see the monk automaton and the V&A Museum to see the mechanical tortoise. I am indebted to so many scholars and makers of automata whose works informed my book: if you’re interested in finding out more, you can find a list of some of my favorite books about automata over at Lit Hub.

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2008 and 2006)

Betsy Johnson

when animals are animals
Mayapple Press, 2021
$17.95

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Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In the book, when animals are animals, Betsy Johnson refuses to be “the quietest person in the world.” She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary spirit take up the empty rucksack, because there is work to be done. That is the work of standing up to the “cloud monster,” of being an antidote, of finding hope in a knot of stones.

(Editor, DMQ Review )

Peter Johnson

Truths, Falsehoods, and a Wee Bit of Honesty: A Short Primer on the Prose Poem, with Selected Letters From Russell Edson
MadHat Press, 2021
$21.95

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Poems read*:
“Nice Socks"
“Vaccination, in the Broadest Sense of the Term"
“Crickets"

(*forthcoming, Plume)

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

Molly spencer

Hinge
Southern Illinois University Press, 2020
$16.95

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I’d like to mention some of the books that helped me write Hinge. Jennifer Richter’s Threshold showed me that poems can transform suffering into something more than suffering. Marie Howe’s The Kingdom of Ordinary Time showed me that everyday life and the great mysteries of existence belong together in poems. Denise Levertov’s work taught me to recall past selves and landscapes with tenderness. As counter-balance, Louise Glück’s work taught me self-skepticism. Traci Brimhall’s Rookery showed me that Hinge is an elegy, which helped me know how to structure the book. Gratitude to these poets and many more.

Abigail Wender

Reliquary
Four Way Books, 2021
$16.95

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Reliquary considers distance and intimacy through lyric poems that address the complicated nature of grief, illness and addiction, and how love—even bliss—figure into grief’s equation. The collection suspends time as the speaker weaves between past and present, assembling fragments and vignettes of childhood, marriage, and womanhood.

Poems read:
“First Snow”
“Hiking”
“Auguries”
“Barn Swallow”
“A Blessing”

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

Meg Eden

Drowning in the Floating World
Press 53, 2020
$14.95

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Drowning in the Floating World revolves around 3/11: the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima Powerplant Disaster. These poems serve as a tsunami stone, a memorial to remember those lost and learn from disaster. They also challenged me to think about how we cope with disaster, and where do we find hope even when earthly circumstances feel hopeless.

Poems read:
“Things to Do In My Hometown: Higashimatsushima”
“I Ask my Mother What It's Like, Living at the Bottom of the Ocean” “Town Hall”

Caroline M. Mar

Special Education
Texas Review Press, 2020
$19.95

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Special Education is a new teacher's journey to understanding herself, her students, and her world through the hard lessons her work life offers up.

Poems read:
“Tongue"
“Uniform"

David ruekberg

Hour of the Green Light
FutureCycle Press, 2021
$15.95

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Hour of the Green Light begins in the womb when the soul chooses to leave the “green light” of paradise, and explores the aftermath of that choice—life in the poignant world of time and space. A bike ride in Central Park, the threat of invasive chipmunks, hanging laundry, climate change, and a rodeo provide a few of the settings for this inquiry into love, work, self, and death. Despite our perception of darkness in this life, these poems urge us to discover “the only light we can know.”

Poems read:
“Delivery”
“Happy Hour”
“Want”
“Work”

(former DMQ Review Contributor)

jane Craven

My Bright Last Country
Cloudbank Books, 2020
$16

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Winner of the 2020 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize, My Bright Last Country contains “Meditations on art, artists, love, marriage, place, dream, the seam that both tears and binds, all through the fierce eyes of a woman awake at the center of the world. " - Dorianne Laux

Reading:
“Bluebird"
“The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige" “Imaginary 21st Century American Photograph"
“And then"

(former DMQ Review contributor)

W. Todd Kaneko

This is How the Bone Sings
Black Lawrence Press, 2020
$16.95

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This Is How the Bone Sings is a book of poems about my family's incarceration at Minidoka, the concentration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. My father and grandparents lived there for the duration of the war and the book is about their relationships to camp, as well as the relationship between Minidoka and my children and me. I’ll read four poems:

“Minidoka Was a Concentration Camp in Idaho"
“Cattle Mutilation"
“Year of the Monkey"
“Oh, Say Can You See"

(former DMQ Review editor)

Christopher Salerno

Deathbed Sext
Two Sylvias Press, 2020
$14

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Poems Read:
“Headfirst"
“Post Op"
“We're Laughing But We've Just Seen A Darkness"
“At the Farm Stand During the Solar Eclipse"
“Men Who Won't Travel"
“Don't You Have A Favorite Hour?"

(former DMQ Review editor)

George Burns

If a Fish
Cathexsis Northwest Press
$16/$4 ebook

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Until I began to gather these poems for If a Fish, I hadn't realized that they were a woven thread to lead me out of my dys- functional family's labyrinth.

These poems are more than a personal journey. They are photos of how I see the blooming world, the joy of being in nature and community.

I hope you enjoy these pages.
Poems:
“If a Fish"
“French Press"
“Plants in Tough Places"
“how is it" *
“Bryce Canyon"
“Does the Road"
“It is"

(former DMQ Review contributor)
*first appeared DMQ Review

Danusha Laméris

Bonfire Opera
University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pitt Poetry Series 2020 $17

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“Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake."

(description from back cover)

Jeanne Wagner

Everything Turns Into Something Else
Grayson Books
$15.98

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“Window Licker”
“We Were Sirens”
“A Personal History of Glass”
“Dogs That Look Like Wolves”

(former DMQ Review contributor)

nin andrews

The Last Orgasm
Etruscan Press
$19

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Why the last orgasm, you might ask--my answer: why the first? Most of us remember our first orgasm, but will we know when we’ve had our last?

Similarly, many of us remember the first poem we ever wrote. But will we know when we are done – or when poetry is done with us? To my mind, poems and orgasms are similar--they both contain moments of bliss and wonder.

As I was writing this book, I imagined I was writing my last collection of poems. Sort of like having a last orgasm.

(former DMQ Review contributor)

laura donnelly

Midwest Gothic
Ashland Poetry Press, 2020
$15.95

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Winner of the Snyder Prize, Midwest Gothic is a book about mothers and daughters and place. Jessica Jacobs writes “Laura Donnelly has written an intricately musical, moving account of the rural Midwest and how it shapes the women who live there, as well as an interrogation of the idea of Eden.”

This reading features a trio of Eden poems from Midwest Gothic:
“The Perimeter,”
“Exodus” and
“Summer*.”

(former DMQ Review contributor)
*first appeared DMQ Review

Sarah J. sloat

Hotel Almighty
Sarabande Books
$19.95

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Many thanks to DMQ for providing me and other poets with the opportunity to present our work. My book, Hotel Almighty, came out in September. It is a collection of visual poetry, combining erasure poems with collage and other visual elements. To create the poems, I used Stephen King’s novel Misery as a source text.

I will read and show six poems:
[Why not invite him in…]
[The Interludes…]
[For a long time…]
[Now I must rinse off…]
[Overlapped shades…]
[Darkness was a woman’s fingers…]

(former DMQ Review contributor)

ken haas

Borrowed Light
Red Mountain Press, 2020
$21.95

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Borrowed Light, a collection which Ellen Bass has called “complex, vibrant, capacious and wildly imaginative,” celebrates the immigrant and traces the evolution of a first-generation American's heart. Ken’s remarkable gift for storytelling takes us from the schoolyard to the old country, the Village to the Sierras, Kafka's bank line to the ballpark, eclipses to cab rides, kayaking to chemo.

Hear Ken read the following poems, from different sections of the book “Sanctuary” (family history); “The Catch” (romance and baseball); and “God’s Widow” (uh oh).

(former DMQ Review contributor)

Jen Karetnick

The Burning Where Breath Used to Be
David Robert Books, 2020
$19

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So many thanks to the DMQ Virtual Salon for hosting me!

A candid book of poems about faith, feminism, and family, The Burning Where Breath Used to Be also addresses social justice and pop culture in America’s past and present. Through the clarity brought by chronic illness and the hindsight that comes from the death of an estranged sibling, it also questions what kind of foundations that Jewish women in South Florida can hope to build as well as the legacies that they might aim to leave.

Poems:
“Ode to Melatonin”
“A Symptom of Resignation” “Necrosis”
“Surge: An Epigenesis”

Michael Salcman

Shades & Graces: New Poems
Spuyten Duyvil, 2020
$15

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My fourth collection is the inaugural winner of the Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize, a friend and former US Poet Laureate.

The book is in four sections: I-Life Stories, II-Quandaries & Lies, III-Father Sleeping and IV-Aesthetic Bursts. Many poems are elegies. Father Sleeping is a single poem about his final illness. Poems in a variety of traditional and invented forms cover my childhood and adult life as immigrant and polio victim, lover, physician and sailor, poet and art critic. The book closes on the subject of Beauty.

I will read four poems:
“The Three Weisses”
“Medulloblastoma”
“Mendacity”
“Bach Was Street”

(former DMQ Review contributor)

Dion O’Reilly

Ghost Dogs
Terrapin Books, 2020
$14

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Ghost Dogs is a bit of a memoir. The text traces a redemptive arc from childhood through adulthood. I like to think this book is truth serum. If you are haunted by this book, it is because the truth haunts. As the title suggests, there are many dogs in the book —many animals in general— because dogs are one of the lucky things that saved me. The poems I read: “Disappearing," one of my environmental poems; “Alaska," a truth serum poem; and “Another Happiness." Because, these days, I feel like I just arrived on Earth.

jennifer k. Sweeney

Foxlogic, Fireweed
The Backwaters Press, 2020
$15.95

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Winner of the Backwaters Prize, Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships. These are poems of the earth’s wild heart, its searing mysteries, its hollows, and its species, poems of the complex domestic space, of before and after motherhood, gun terror, the election, of dislocation and home, and how we circle toward and away from our centers. Her California road trip reading includes: Variation on Bear and Moon (Yosemite), In the House of Seals (lighthouse ruins), Tree; Tremble* (Muir Woods), Eclipse* (high desert).
*first appeared DMQ Review

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Kathleen Winter

Transformer
The Word Works, 2020
$18

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Poems from Transformer: Bystanders, Finally the girls, The Heights, The Porch Roof's Sky-Blue Ceiling.

JP Dancing bear

Of Oracles and Monsters
Glass Lyre Press, 2020
$16.00

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Of Oracles and Monsters is an urgent book of our times, troubles, and near futures.

Poems read:

“Oracle of Garbage"
“Oracle of Failure"
“Hillary Clinton as Cassandra"

DMQ Review Founding Editor

Maggie Paul

Scrimshaw
Hummingbird Press, 2020
$15.00

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Scrimshaw begins with an epigraph by Rainer Maria Rilke, which states, “one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.” The book explores the bridges between life and death, the brevity of time, and how the spirits of those who have passed appear in the present through nature, memory, and art.

I’ll read the following poems:

“From a Line by Jack Gilbert” “Why I Don’t Phone in the Morning”
“Linguistics”
“Pre-emptive Elegy (Should We Move to Mars)”
“Scrimshaw”
“It Is”

Connie Post

Prime Meridian
Glass Lyre Press, 2020
$ 16.00

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When I wrote the poems in Prime Meridian, I hoped to open the conversation about suffering. What it means for a person to suffer, what it means for the earth to suffer. I hope the poems examine silence, and truth and the layers in between.

Thank you for helping to welcome this book into the world.

I’ll read the following poems:

“Accessory after the Fact”
“Living Abroad”
“Infatuation”
“After Winter”
“Feat”
“Silences”
“Become”