Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 Weeks (YesYes Books, 2023), Don't Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press, 2020), and The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and AGNI, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on a new poetry collection as well as a book of lyric essays, both of which grapples with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war against Ukraine, Julia's birthplace. She is Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University and lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.

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Other poems on the web by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach:
Four poems
"One Year Later"
"Cantaloupe"
Six poems
Four poems
"Week 25: Rutabaga"
"Sonnet for Ukraine Refusing to End"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Under the bed, the monsters grow restless."
"When We Move to the Country"
"The Question"
"Other women don't tell you"
"Week 26: Scallion"

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's Website.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach on Twitter.

About 40 Weeks:

"40 WEEKS is a breathtaking collection poised on the thresholds between anxiety & wonder, violence & hope, survival & surrender. With fierce intelligence, these poems gallop toward an understanding of just how thin those thresholds are."
—Chelsea Dingman

"One might think these intimate and tender poems are about carrying a child to term, but in truth they're an examination of what it means to carry ourselves through the world: open, vulnerable, aware of the risk but ready to receive it all."
—Keetje Kuipers

"Loving but unsentimental, attentive to both the revelatory details of body, soul and family and to the wider, catastrophically changing world around them, 40 WEEKS gives language and voice to a transformative aspect of human experience."
—Joy Ladin

"Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach documents the bizarre journey that is pregnancy at the end of the world. 40 WEEKS is full of wonder at the 'looming : red in milk-water : mango skin' that insists on becoming in spite of history, of chaos, of the 'mostly flecks and darkness' that comprise our galaxy. These poems are testament to the sacredness of pushing life forward anyway."
— Irène Mathieu