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Poetry

We feel every filament, each short white thread joining us to them. We feel the wholeness of the unpeeled globe. Sometimes wild strawberry runners tangle with your hair as you sleep. // Rose DeMaris

 

Selected Published Poems, 2021~present

 

Vessel ~ Winner: 2023 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award ~ publication forthcoming

Twilight (a translation of Crepescule by May Ziadeh) ~ forthcoming in Diode

Aspen, Trembling ~ Narrative

Andromeda Variations ~ Narrative

Titanium ~ New England Review

Pain is the Beam That Penetrates ~ The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly

Immortal Jellyfish ~ Tupelo Quarterly

You Were Never Really Sure What Color Eyes ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Lachrymal Madrigal ~ Tupelo Quarterly

A Female Blanket Octopus Unfurls Her Iridescent Cape ~ Tupelo Quarterly

Red Crop Milk ~ Image

Cherry Leaf Wine ~ Alaska Quarterly Review

I Knew It Was You Who Planted Those Yellow Snapdragons ~ Maiden Magazine

The Pelican ~ Winner: Best Spiritual Literature Award, Orison Books Best Spiritual Literature 2023 Anthology

Evelyn Nesbit Poses as Bluebeard’s Wives ~ Mayday

Rose Cane ~ Maiden Magazine

Song of the Barren Orange Tree Who Is Nourished by Her Own Fallen Leaves ~ Dewdrop

Bluing ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

A Tooth of Mary Magdalene ~ Two Hawks Quarterly

A New Vocabulary ~ Roanoke Review ~ Interview

Translation of “Goodbye, Lebanon” by May Ziadeh ~ Virginia’s Sisters: an anthology

Bird Wife ~ Pine Row Press ~ Interview

Transubstantiation ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Fish Wife ~ Birdcoat Quarterly

Cherries Out of Season ~ Vassar Review

Honeyguide ~ Some Kind of Opening

Bare Branches ~ Big Sky Journal

3 Poems (translations of poems by May Ziadeh) ~ The Los Angeles Review

Pale Blue ~ Qu Lit Mag

Goodbye, Lebanon (a translation of “Adieu” by May Ziadeh) ~ Asymptote