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While our current interest remains the Prose Poem, the DMQ Review is extremely proud of our history as one of the longest continuously running online journals in the nation, featuring award-winning poetry with art since 1998. As an independent, volunteer-run literary journal, it has been our privilege to publish the work of both established and emerging poets and to do so without submission or subscription fees. We welcome American and international voices from all cultural identities in the English language.

Our talented editorial team is comprised of working poets, and poets who work, donating our time to read your poems.

In July 2020 we began the DMQ Virtual Salon, a monthly video-based reading series featuring poets reading from their new books as our response to the shut-down of essential reading opportunities due to the pandemic.

We nominate our poets for the Pushcart prize and Best of Net, and Verse Daily often features our poetry as a WebWeekly feature. We are proud to have had our work appear in the annual Best American Poetry anthology.

Thanks for reading with us. Contact editors at dmqreview@gmail.com for further info.

about dmq

editorial team

Editor in Chief since 2004, Sally Ashton is the author of Some Odd Afternoon, Her Name Is Juanita, These Metallic Days, The Behaviour of Clocks (WordFarm 2019), and most recently, Listening to Mars (Cornerstone Press, 2024). A former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Sally publishes in three genres and specializes in short forms. She taught creative writing at SJSU for over ten years and continues to teach workshops, both Zoom and in person. Sally Ashton

Senior Editor Mary Donnelly is the author of the chapbook Mad World Colored Oil (Dancing Girl Press) and has published work in The Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Yale Review. She received an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches through Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City, where she lives, and in the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Sierra Nevada College. Mary Donnelly

Editor Ume Ali teaches English Composition and Intro to Creative Writing at San Jose State University, where she received her MFA in Fiction and Poetry. Her work deals with issues of patriarchy in immigrant families, third culturalism, and displacement. Ume has served as contributing editor for Azizah Magazine, and poetry editor for Reed Magazine Issue 155. Her poems can be found in Mizna, Azizah Magazine, and Caesura. Most recently, Ume was named winner of the Poetry Center of San Jose's 2021 Poetry Video Contest. When she isn't writing, Ume likes running, and spending time with her partner and three children.

Editor Anne Cheilek is a writer, editor, and musician living in Silicon Valley. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in RHINO Poetry, Catamaran Literary Reader, Gone Lawn, and other literary journals. She was the poetry editor for Reed Magazine (issues 153 and 154) and the recipient of the 2020 Anne Lillis Award and the 2019 Phelan Award for Free Verse.

[Currently on sabbatical]

Editor Rachel A. Crawford is a writer and teacher living in Northern California with her husband and two daughters. When she is not reading or writing, you can find Rachel working out in her orchard or cuddling with her chickens.

Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, editor Hilary King now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Salamander, TAB, and other publications. She is currently getting her MFA from San Jose State, where she is a Steinbeck fellow. Her book of poetry, Stitched on Me, was published in 2024 by Riot in Your Throat.

Special projects editor Annie Kim is a poet, lawyer, and violinist. Her first book, Into the Cyclorama, won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and her second book, Eros, Unbroken, winner of the Washington Poetry Prize, came out in 2020. Annie’s poems have appeared in journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, and Pleiades, and she has received residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She works as an assistant dean at the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches about public interest lawyering. Learn more at anniekim.net.