My poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review.
I am the author of five poetry collections, most recently "The Nineteen Steps Between Us" (2016, After the Pause). I am the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry.
I am currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with my wife and children.
EMILY AS OUT IN A STORM WE WANT MORE STORM
Gorged on the shadows
the clouds provided,
we look like criminals
amidst each bolt,
each off-rhythm that cuts
the sky in two
& gives one decision to make.
Can you dance
in such chaos? Emily
& I, we dance
& we ask for more storm
in the progression
of our souls,
as they writhe together
in a landscape that
will always be clashing.
~Darren C. Demaree
