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Darren C. Demaree
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JUST RELEASED! ✨
Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005–2025 by Darren C. Demaree gathers two decades of extraordinary work from one of today’s most prolific Ohioan poets.

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November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Tonight (8pm) is the night!

Please join me, @scottwoods.bsky.social, Julia Kolchinsky, and Amanda Nicole Corbin at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social for the launch of my selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Join us TODAY for this release reading event! RSVP on facebook or register on zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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It’s Book Day!

My selected poems collection, Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Selected Poems 2005-2025) is officially available!

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Now Flourish Northern Cardinal by Darren C. Demaree — Small Harbor Publishing
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November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Tonight!
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of Packingtown Review for including my poem Emily as The Two Sisters by Théodore Chassérieau in their new issue.

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"Emily as <em>The Two Sisters</em> by Théodore Chassérieau" by Darren C. Demaree | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts
Poetry:
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Tomorrow night is the online book launch of Now Flourish Northern Cardinal!
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Many thanks to the Flint Hills Review for including my poem Emily as Yellow Flowers at the Baptism in their new issue.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Many thanks to Barton Smock for reading and reacting to Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Small Harbor Publishing).

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words toward Darren C Demaree’s ‘Now Flourish Northern Cardinal’ (selected poems 2005-2025, Small Harbor Publishing (2025))
Now Flourish Northern Cardinalselected poems 2005-2025, Darren C DemareeSmall Harbor Publishing, 2025Addiction is the breadcrumb that the body follows to wine. I don’t know what this turns into. Da…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Yay, poetry 💗 Check this out from @darrencdemaree.bsky.social . #poetry
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Shari’s Lemon Sour Cream Blueberry Pie (written in 2018 for @shaindelr.bsky.social ) and if there is a river #55 (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Shari’s Lemon Sour Cream Blueberry Pie (written in 2018 for @shaindelr.bsky.social ) and if there is a river #55 (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
The book of poems Unrivered, by Donna Vorrreyer. Sundress Publications, 2025 Skeleton Key My ribs pick-up sticks, my skull a bowl for cherry pits and pyrite, a cauldron to simmer the marrow into song. The teeth from my jawbone strung like pearls with a clasp of hammer and anvil, adorning my laddered neck. Beneath the leaded apron, with each thunk of exposure, hymns are humming. After, the machine shows me arranged in the usual way, and the doctor reads the film. Minor lapses in density. Arthritic calcifications. Small fissures and lesions. But he doesn't know the real story. I must break the language to tell it myself: Once upon a time there was a girl whose skin was jeweled, whose sentences were filled with bones and ghosts.
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Open for December consultations. Send me a message if you're interested.
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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with and empathy so fatal #52 & #56 (written on the same day in 2020, as this project was written in 7 poem blocks, every day for 12 days) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of Plainsongs for including my poem Emily as a Blue Canary in their new issue.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One week from tonight!
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Robert Creeley
THEY I wondered what had happened to the chords. There was a music, they were following a pattern. It was an intention perhaps. No field but they walk m in it. No place without them, any discretion is useless. They want a time, they have a time, each one in his place, an endless arrival.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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🛋️Lamp Lit 1.2 Fall '25 Cover and Contributor Reveal!

Cover art by Mirjana M. @ cyanide_cherries on insta

Our sophomore issue will be released to Lamplit.net on Thursday, November 13th! 🛋️

#coverreaveal #poetry #shortstories #art #essay #litmags #lamplitmag

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Thank you to our fantastic line-up of contributors and to all submitters. We could not do this without you!

Lamp Lit 1.2 Contributors:

Jana Brankova
Dustin Brookshire @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social
Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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One week from tonight!
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Sweet Wolf #1 (written in 2014) and Emily as a Primary Function (written in 2021) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Jim Harrison
4 You can’t expect anything. Even dawn is a presumption. More raptors this year after two good monsoons. I found a lush and hidden valley I couldn’t bear to enter today. It frightened me as if it might be home to new species of creatures God had forgotten to invent. The old man is also a timid boy.
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Emily as Measureless (written in 2011) and Emily as a Tré Burt Song (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM