Dennis Rhodes is the author of The OCD Poems (Indolent Books, 2021), The Letter I (Chelsea Station Editions, 2014), Entering Dennis (Xlibris, 2005), and Spiritus Pizza & Other Poems (Vital Links, 2000). His poems and essays have appeared in BLOOM, Cadence, Chelsea Station, Lambda Literary Review, The Cape Cod Times, New York Newsday, Fine Gardening, Avocet, Provincetown Magazine, Backstreet, bear creek haiku, Aurorean, and Alembic, among others. He was a longtime resident of New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, both of which have been settings for his work. He currently lives in Florida.

Other poems on the web by Dennis Rhodes:
Thirty-four poems

Dennis Rhodes on Twitter.

About The OCD Poems:

"The seriousness of a debilitating illness-not only living with, but moving on despite the odds are the darker fare of these new poems by Dennis Rhodes. Poems of liberation, of one who has come out the other side alive. One could imagine Sexton, if she had survived her own life, writing poems like 'The last OCD poem'

A knife in the sink
makes me stop and think:
What if I tried it again?
I wouldn't survive
or come out alive-
I think I'll just wield my pen."
—Jeff Walt