todd davis

Coffin Honey
Michigan State University Press, 2022 $19.95

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In Coffin Honey, Todd Davis explores the many violences we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here racism, climate collapse, and pandemic are dramatized in intimate portraits of Rust-Belt Appalachia: a young boy who has been sexually assaulted struggles with dreams of revenge and the possible solace that nature might provide; a girl whose boyfriend has enlisted in the military faces pregnancy alone; and a bear named “Ursus” navigates the fecundity of the forest after his own mother’s death, literally crashing into the encroaching human world.

lisa dordal

Water Lessons
Black Lawrence Press, 2022
$16.95

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Water Lessons addresses multiple dimensions of grief arising from my mother’s alcoholism and eventual death, my father’s deepening dementia, and my own childlessness. Against the backdrop of these personal griefs, I scrutinize the patriarchal underpinnings of the world I grew up in as well as my complicity in systemic racism as a white girl growing up in the 70’s and 80’s.

Poems read:
“My Mother Is a Peaceful Ghost” “Grief”
“Daughter Poem”
“I Love”

former DMQ Review Contributor

Jennifer martelli

The Queen of Queens
Bordighera Press, 2022
$18

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Just after I graduated from college in 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to the vice presidency. The Reagan administration was reveling in its greed and cruelty; the AIDS epidemic was being ignored; people were needlessly dying.

When I started writing The Queen of Queens, we had not yet been plunged into a pandemic, which would be ignored by another feckless administration, nor had Kamala Harris been nominated to the vice presidency (this is the good news).

If I were to give The Queen of Queens a shape, it would be circular, like the pearls Geraldine Ferraro wore at her nomination.

former DMQ Review Contributor

Daniel biegelson

of being neighbors
Ricochet Editions, 2021
$15.00

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“The sheer velocity of the collection of being neighbors made me feel like I was riding a kayak on a tsunami. These poems charge forward, asking big questions and taking enormous risks, bringing together the ecstatic and the intimate, while remaining grounded in erudition and ethics. The book wants to know how to live in human community, how to commune with neighbors, how to return to the commons that have been privatized out of existence. It continuously opens up onto inquiry, rather than arriving at answers, and yet it is precisely the guide I need now.” — Jason Schneiderman

Caroline Goodwin

Matanuska
Aquifer Press, 2022
$20

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John Goodby writes, “This is a delicious, disturbing, and deliciously disturbing poetic sequence, that takes its name from the Matanuska River in south-central Alaska where Caroline Goodwin spent her childhood. Matanuska eschews sentimentality even as it champions sentiment, its melee of different threads encouraging the reader to work for sense (and senses) while relishing its sonic and paratactical dance, a dance with is often mesmerizing. It is precisely in not pulling its punches and in refusing to wallow in doom or bien-pensant piety that Caroline Goodwin manages to create the space for poetic invention.”

Jan LaPerle

Maybe The Land Sings Back
Galileo Books, 2022
$16.42

Playlist:

These poems, some written in east Tennessee before moving to Kentucky in 2018, document the joy and pain of marriage and motherhood, separation and reconciliation, cancer, work-life (most of which was on active duty for the U.S. Army) and the domestic.

Poems read:
“This Thing Like That”
“Shiloh”
“Little Weeping Day With Trees Inside”

jon davis

Above the Bejeweled City
Grid Books, 2021
$16.00

Playlist:

“The Ghost of Denis Johnson” “Above the Bejeweled City”

For this reading, I decided to read two poems. I have no idea—beyond being in the grip of the pandemic—why I dreamed these particular dreams. Perhaps my obsessive reading of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Romance Sonambulo” informed the dreams. In both cases, I woke and scribbled notes, then went straight to the computer in the morning. Because writing a poem is like dreaming, I’m not sure, now, how much was dream, how much imagination.

I should say something more about “The Ghost of Denis Johnson.” I first met Denis in 1983 in Montana, and we remained friends until the end.

susan nguyen

Dear Diaspora
University of Nebraska Press, 2021
$17.95

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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Dear Diaspora introduces us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Suzi, caught between enjoying a rundown American adolescence and living with the inheritances of war, attempts to unravel her own inherited grief as she explores the multiplicities of identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora.

Poems read:
“Letter to the Diaspora"
“Wish List"
“Suzi Searches for Ecstasy"
“Letter to the Diaspora"
“Unending"

julia wendell

The Art of Falling
FutureCycle Press, 2022
$15.95 paper $2.99 Kindle

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“ ‘Come off a horse enough times/and you learn how to fall.' With its crescendos and diminuendos, this book is concerned not just with falling but also art and its making, paying homage to persistence and survival through music and musicians, paintings and painters, books and their characters. . . The Art of Falling offers an enduring wisdom and reminds us that “Sometimes you just have to let things toughen.”

—Amanda Moore, National Poetry Series Winner, 2021

Poems read:
“First Tomato”
“My Never Ending Katzenjammer”
“The Anorexic Teaches Her Children”
“Dear Home”

Jennifer jean

Object Lesson
Lily Press, 2021
$12

Playlist:

Jennifer Jean reads from her poetry collection Object Lesson which explores sex-trafficking and objectification in America. She hopes to raise awareness about this persistent human problem. Some poems are based on interviews with survivors at a safe-house where Jennifer volunteered.

Poems read:
“When I taught poetry at the safe house”
“Bird”
“Dear Jasz”

former DMQ Review Contributor &
2020 Pushcart Nominee

james Gering

Staying Whole While Falling Apart
Interactive Press, 2021
$16 (U.S.)

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Staying Whole While Falling Apart is a playful yet serious exploration of loss and grief, of trying to find balance and stability amidst a giddying welter of experiences. You’ll laugh and cry with Aaron Auslander, a kind of everyman, as he tries to make sense of the flux and tumble of his life. The poetry is sharp and it cuts right to the bone, exposing the vulnerabilities and the precarious provisos under which we all can live. This is a potent book animated by courage and finely-honed craft.

—Judith Beveridge, Recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for poetry 2019

John Sibley Williams

The Drowning House
Winner, Elixir Press Poetry Award, 2022
$17

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In The Drowning House, John Sibley Williams grapples with ghosts, the predators outside and in, those closer than our own hearts. In American landscapes haunted by nooses and wolves, burning crosses and floods, Williams holds a light before his path. These are keen-edged poems, kneeling before us, asking forgiveness for what our ancestors have done and have had to live through. He offers himself as a sacrifice for our sins: “here, love, is the tree of my body // to learn to climb. Far from here. From me. To touch / whatever's still up there, beautifully above us."

—Philip Metres

linda nemec foster

The Blue Divide
New Issues Press, 2021
$16.00

Playlist:

I'll be reading from my new poetry book, The Blue Divide, which one reviewer described as a collection that “navigates the edges and depths of worlds both here and beyond--through currents of art, love, war, dreams, history, language, family--to map what flows between us." It pays close attention to what can heal and redeem our common journey-- “...pointing out the places where the heart breaks, and where it mends." Specifically, I'll read from a sequence of ekphrastic poems, "The Artist's Notebook," that was the first runner-up in New Letters' Poetry Award and was subsequently published in New Millennium Writings.

jae kim

Translator
Cold Candies: Selected Poems of Lee Young-Ju
Black Ocean, 2021
$16.00

Playlist:

“Mooncoming”
“The Ritual to Come of Age”
“Nine Steps”

Jenny Qi

Focal Point
Steel Toe Books, 2021
$16.00

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Winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award, Focal Point is a scientist’s unofficial dissertation, a daughter’s faithful correspondence, and a coming-of-age story. Written largely while Jenny Qi was a young Ph.D. student conducting cancer research after her beloved mother's death, the collection turns to “all the rituals of all the faiths,” invoking Western and Eastern mythology and history, metaphors from cell biology, and even Jimi Hendrix, as Qi searches for a container to hold grief.

Poems read:

“Point At Which Parallel Waves Converge & From Which Diverge” “Biology Lesson 1”
“Biology Lesson 2”
“Penelope Looks Back” “Contingencies”

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

Playlist:

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.

former DMQ Review Contributor

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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

“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.

former DMQ Review Contibutor

Jeff Friedman

The Marksman
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020
$15.95

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

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

thomas R. Smith

Storm Island
Red Dragonfly Press, 2020
$18

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

“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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

“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

Playlist:

“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

Playlist:

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

Playlist:

“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.

(former DMQ Review Contributor
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

Playlist

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

Playlist

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

Playlist

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

Playlist

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

Playlist

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

Playlist

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)