Darius Stewart is the author of the poetry collection Intimacies in Borrowed Light (EastOver Press 2022), and his lyric memoir, Be Not Afraid of My Body, is forthcoming from Belt Publishing in 2024. Darius's poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Arkansas International, The Brooklyn Review, Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Fourth Genre, Salamander, Verse Daily, and others. He received an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. In 2021, the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame honored him with their inaugural Emerging Writer Award. He is currently a Lulu Johnson Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Iowa.

Other poems by Darius Stewart in Verse Daily:
April 1, 2008:   "Self-Portrait as Future Third Person" "His face becomes mammal-skin..."

Books by Darius Stewart:

Other poems on the web by Darius Stewart:
Four poems
"Statues in the Park"

Darius Stewart's Website.

Darius Stewart on Twitter.

About Intimacies in Borrowed Light:

"The radiant poems in Darius Stewart's Intimacies in Borrowed Light invite readers into the full and evolving vision of a brilliant young poet as he explores the nuances of his own identity and experiences as a Black and gay artist in urban Appalachia and beyond. We encounter first loves and lost loves, family members struggling to take care of one another, and an emerging writer engaging with timeless works from Magritte and Debussy to Louise Gluck and Jack Gilbert. Those of us who read Darius's work from the early days have sought these poems out and watched as they became harder and harder to find: to hold them together now in one substantial volume is a joy. The central, intertwining themes of this book are announced right in the title—intimacy and light—and Stewart's poems make the world feel more closely held and better lit, easier to love and harder to take for granted."
—Jesse Graves

"Intimacies in Borrowed Light thrums with ecstasy and extravagance even as his speaker charts the vagaries of the body, the inevitability of grieving and loss. A finely wrought debut, Intimacies in Borrowed Light heralds Stewart as a bold, emerging voice."
—Donika Kelly