It’s here!

Many thanks to Twin Flame Literary for including two of my Emily poems in their new issue. twinflameliterary.com/emily-as-we-...

Going to the post office on Tuesday to mail off some signed books. Let me know if you’d like me to send any your way. ($15 each)

I highly recommend this book for anyone community building inside or outside of an institution.

Many thanks to Tim Staley for including my What We Called Fruit sequence in Cacti Fur Collective Volume 2. It's available now. www.amazon.com/CACTI-FUR-CO...

if you're looking for some weekend reading, i've got a new essay thing up on substack about palmistry, doubt, dark nights of the soul, planarian worms, the world book encyclopedia, and writing (or not). you can visit it here:

Split Life

This post is a writing workshop's nightmare, honestly.

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Happy 19th Anniversary, Emily!

Issue 7 is here! Poems from @adamg.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @carolee.bsky.social Jill Crammond @fakeourway.bsky.social & AJ Wright. Art from @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social and featured artist @thaddevassie.bsky.social asteralesjournal.com

The deadline has been extended! If you haven't already, please vote for Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. survey.typeform.com/to/Pows6jiE?...

Many thanks to the editors of the Globe Review for including three of my Emily poems on their site.

Emily as the Fox Smiles; Emily as All the Honey; Emily as Towards Absence

by Darren C. Demaree  Emily as the Fox Smiles Forget how delicious my heart must be.  She’s been feasting on it in public  to confer importance, but mostly because  she knows some of…

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A huge thank you to JOAN KWON GLASS for her thoughts concerning "ALL THAT TEETHES WITHIN," and to all of you, my friends. I COULD NOT HAVE THIS LIFE WITHOUT YOU! #ohiopoetlaureateemeritus @kentuckypress.bsky.social

Today is the last day to vote! Please vote for Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. survey.typeform.com/to/Pows6jiE?...

Our Substack features highlights from the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference, with a stage event and signings by many of our authors!Remember, you can request Trio House titles be acquired by your local library so more people can read them! triohousepress.substack.com/p/american-l...

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

The Reader's Choice Award voting for the Ohio Book Awards is open for four more days. It only takes 30 seconds to vote for my collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing). survey.typeform.com/to/Pows6jiE?...

Many thanks to Stickman Review for including my poem 5/14/25 from my No Nation-State Wants Its People to Outlive It manuscript in their new issue. stickmanreview.com/V25N1/demare...

My new poem is up at The Los Angeles Review this week:

Many thanks to Scars for including my poem Creek Bed Meditations #12 in their new issue. scars.tv/cgi-bin/work...

"I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87

Oh hey - guess what? My book launch is now viewable on YouTube! What better time than this little heat wave to stay inside, kick back with a cold drink, and enjoy a few poems. :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icyr...

Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Selected Poems 2005-2025) is nominated for this year's Ohio Book Award for Poetry, which will be decided by judges, but it's also nominated for the Reader's Choice award which you all can vote for. Please do. survey.typeform.com/to/Pows6jiE?...

Many thanks to the editors of The Disappointed Housewife for publishing my poem Creek Bed Meditations #24 on their website today. thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/07/01/c...

Creek Bed Meditations #24 ~ poetry by Darren C. Demaree

Creek Bed Meditations #24 Is it so simple as to be if we touch the world the world can no longer exist in the same way? I have to really think to remember we have a natural history as well. The Eas…

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ALA Convention folks, I’ll be at the Trio House table today from 11-12 signing copies of Two Towns Over.

Tomorrow!

Many thanks to the editors of the Sucarnochee Review for including two of my Emily poems in their new print issue.

Need some poetry to wrap up the day? ✨️ Contributor @darrencdemaree.bsky.social published a poem in The Midwest Quarterly! 🤩 buff.ly/d8op9C8

In her craft essay, Stine An draws from her multifaceted experience as a poet, technical writer, business school researcher, literary translator, and stand-up comedian to document her navigation through a writing and publishing life. www.sundresspublications.com/craft-chaps/...

New work from Sundress author Caleb Curtiss!

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I'd seen it and wondered several things, including: what kind of baby would stick its head into a bucket? And what became of him, anyway?" // "Bucket Baby" + 4 more by the inimitable Caleb Curtiss (@cdcurtiss.bsky.social) / new today at AC

Got There: Poems on Vanishing available now from April Gloaming Publishing. aprilgloaming.com/shop/got-the...