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Darren C. Demaree
@darrencdemaree.bsky.social
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Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
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Our March 26 reading is set, and it will be 🔥. Join us to hear @dlassell.bsky.social, @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social, @janezwart.bsky.social, @hollicarrell.bsky.social, & Robbi Nester read from their newest books!

Register here!
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February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Once again, if anyone knows of any remote full-time, part-time, or freelance jobs, I would be extremely grateful.

I have nearly two decades of writing and editing experience, focused SEO experience, and a decade of teaching experience.
February 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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sarahclark.bsky.social
It happens to be my birthday tomorrow, so if you feel inclined to help support what I do, I'm still $290 short of last year's year-end goal to keep beestung funded! 😘🐝

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Donate to beestung: Years Six & Seven, organized by Sarah Clark
What is beestung: beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderquee… Sarah Clark needs your support for beestung: Years Six & Seven
www.gofundme.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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triohousepress.org
More poems and inspiration from @darrencdemaree.bsky.social @mauchmauch.bsky.social @debkossmann.bsky.social and many others! Check them all out on our Virtual Vigil playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
January 30, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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halseyreader.bsky.social
"This work doesn’t need my name anywhere on it. This work needs me to put the name of the community I serve on the cover, and for me to show up as often as I can to help them build the next chapter."
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 PM
darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Many thanks to Jen Knox and Unleash Lit for publishing my little essay about working at a public library.

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"A Stubborn and Ornery Hope" by Darren C. Demaree
Mini Portraits of America: Day in the Life series
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January 30, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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djvorreyer.bsky.social
Honored to be in this first issue with so many writers I admire. Please check out the issue - it's small and beautiful and a perfect one-sit read. Thanks to @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social for his hard work in curating a new space for writers.
swiftslitmag.bsky.social s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social · 21d
Our first issue is live! Check out the fantastic writing of @mollyakin.bsky.social, Lindsey D. Alexander, @jackbedell.bsky.social, @amorak.bsky.social, Brynn Martin, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social:

swiftslitmag.com
an outline sketch of a swift (bird) with the table of contents for issue one below it, listing molly akin, lindsey d. alexander, jack b. bedell, amorak huey, brynn martin, and donna vorreyer
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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bestofthenet.bsky.social
Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Loving After Loss"  @cassdonish.bsky.social (COMP: an interdisciplinary journal) selected by Ruben Quesada on bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-poetry/loving-after-loss/

#bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist
Loving After Loss “all night long, the curtain was pulled back and dawn drew me toward it, through the dark hours in which, missing you, and feeling the strangeness of missing you along with her, i swarmed above the pages of a book searching for a lost syntax that could lead me to this new form of desire, desire after obliteration, i shouldn’t overstate this, the death of myself when she died, i shouldn’t overstate it: obliteration” Cass Donish (comp: an interdisciplinary journal) best of the net 2025: poetry selection @bestofthenetanthology
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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triohousepress.org
Next up on our virtual vigil for Minneapolis: @anamariacaballero.bsky.social, author of Material, with a poem about immigration. So moving…thank you, Ana.

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January 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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smallharborpub.bsky.social
Did you see what’s available? 👀

T4T by Evelyn Berry is here—an electric, tender exploration of queer and trans life right now.

Get your copy: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/t4...
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Got a new box of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal. Let me know if you’d like a signed copy for $18.
January 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
here's a poem from my book which won the Birdwhistle Poetry Prize from Noble Gas Qtrly back in the day
Love Poem to My Brother as He Gives My Father a Shave Bending over the hospital bed, my brother brings a blade to my father's cheek, hauls its edge across those iron stalks, erasing thick froth, dense cream, rinsing the razor in a pink bowl, then again, metal pressed to skin, that sound, follicle scraped from flesh, like tearing open an envelope—its letter good news—it says you are alive and the ones who love you most are here, touching your knuckles, wrist, as if there grows on the body a kind of Braille— and in this way my brother harvests the past week, reaps it from the wildling field of my father's cheek, and who could not help but fall a little in love with one so capable as to be able to cull time from flesh, a man who then tenderly presses a damp towel to the jaw of another warm and living man and says, "You look good," and does not want anything in return besides the next breath shaped into a “see you next week.” Second page of the poem, starting with the line "and in this way." The entire poem is in the alt text of the first image.
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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glasspoetry.bsky.social
Today on Glass!

"Numbering the Days" by Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin.bsky.social)!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
Image of rain Text: Fridays with nothing as good as the hot of a shower, not killing the spider cricket slouching there. Numbering the Days Erin Elizabeth Smith https://www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
January 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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amorak.bsky.social
Mouth, my fifth full-length collection of poetry, comes out in just over two weeks from Cornerstone Press. The press and I would be ever so grateful if you ordered a copy from them.
Prayer with Burning Barn My favorite barn burned down today. I loved it for its imperfections, its usedness, the way it sagged against itself. Postcard red worn to gray. Today as I drove by, flame bit the spring sky. A plume of smoke visible for a mile. A line of flashing lights, traffic narrowed to a single lane, hoses containing the heat but stopping nothing. Tomorrow’s commute will offer a touch less wonder. There’s a hole in my future shaped like an old barn. I do not mean to make more of this than what it is: a story about the body. Cover of the poetry book Mouth: Poems, by Amorak Huey Cover depicts lower half of a face with a red-lipsticked mouth open in a body of water
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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donoteat.bsky.social
time until listening to "this year" by the mountain goats this year: 73 hours 54 minutes
January 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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sundresspub.bsky.social
Don't miss Sundress authors jason b. crawford and Ching-In Chen at Poets House 30th Showcase Reading on January 15th in NYC! poetshouse.org/event/30th-s...
30th Showcase Reading: Ching-In Chen, jason b. crawford, charles theonia, Nora Treatbaby
1/15: In speculative place-making of immigrant, Black, queer and utopias (imagined and real), these poets write better worlds into our own.
poetshouse.org
January 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Many thanks to the editors of Glint for publishing my poem Emily as Run or Tumble in their new issue.

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EMILY AS RUN OR TUMBLE You can’t unburn America,but you can plant new seeds,you can be ornery, you can trip & fall all over the country& be loose with your pockets& your heart, you can …
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December 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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riverriverbooks.bsky.social
A new poem from Lauren Camp in the new double, Sweet Sixteen issue of @sugarhousereview.bsky.social! 📚🩷

Read the full poem “As Long as I See” here: www.sugarhousereview.com/current-issu...
Lauren Camp's “As Long as I See”
In an effort to avoid verbosity, we'll put it succinctly: we love poetry. Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar Hous
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December 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of Salamander for including two of my Emily as poems in their new issue.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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amorak.bsky.social
So pleased to have this poem shared by @slowdownshow.org --
slowdownshow.org The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · Dec 15
"This poet does speak to the precarity of it all: writing, and loving, and living," our host Maggie Smith shares in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1412.

Read "Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)" by @amorak.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aQfUrK
text graphic featuring copy from Amorak Huey's poem selfie photograph of poet Amorak Huey, taken near the water.
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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sundresspub.bsky.social
The Best of the Net is now officially on BlueSky! Follow them at
@bestofthenet.bsky.social!
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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sundresspub.bsky.social
Pre-orders are now available for Burns, the debut full-length poetry collection by SG Huerta! Save $6 off the cover price when you pre-order now! sundress-publications.square.site/product/burn...
This book is all of the things I love in one: honest about the mess of living, dexterous like any book of poems should be. I read and reread to be reminded of what matters: these words, this earth, our recollection of it. -KB Brookins
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Taking more signed copies to the post office tomorrow. Let me know if you’d like one as well.
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of @pinchjournal.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk poetry and Emily as poems.

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Writer Darren C. Demaree on Poetry as “the Best Kind of Ornery” — PINCH
What do you think it means to be Pinchy? Or for a piece to be Pinchy? I think it means you don’t mind the friction of the living; that sequitur and non-sequitur, nonsense and a great hope can all be ...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM