Darren C. Demaree is the author of twenty-three poetry collections, most recently "So Much More" (Harbor Editions, November 2024). He is the recipient of a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and the Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system.
The air is suspended. Emily& I imagine we are breathinganyway. We are essential bodies today. We voted. We stepped outof our cages, briefly. The dead moonkissed our cheeks. We are devoted to dying together in this America,but that’s much more about lovingthe Mediterranean restaurant down the street from our housethan it is about loving a nation.A nation is no one’s… Read more →
i told my son about the flower the seed and root of the flower the ego of the bloom the little bits of stone that surround the flower to become part of a garden the ways the woods can darken without the flower and he ate the flower and he smiled and in his mind he became the flower he… Read more →
Like there might not be a room beneath the roof that is Emily, I have done things, they would be horrible things if they were not done in the name of Emily? Yes. There is an incredible science to relationships, sacrifice & sacrifice. Is it still a room if it is devoured by reactions? Yes. The smoke can be the… Read more →