Donna Prinzmetal is a poet and psychotherapist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the recipient of the 2020 Lois Cranston Prize from Calyx. Her first book, Snow White, When No One Was Looking, was published with CW Books in May of 2014. Each Unkept Secret, a finalist for the Concrete Wolf Albiso Award, is her second book.

Other poems by Donna Prinzmetal in Verse Daily:
June 22, 2007:   "Prophecy: Snow White" " I keep everything..."

Other poems on the web by Donna Prinzmetal:
"Why I Can't Find a Picture of Me with My Mother"
"Set Yourself on Fire"
"At Fourteen"
"Last Things"

Donna Prinzmetal's Website.

About Each Unkept Secret:

"Donna Prinzmetal may question how her poetry can possibly 'measure the distance / between the living and the dead,' but it does just that and more: many of her poems both measure and collapse that distance, creating a riveting lyric voice that can fashion "the right syntax for grieving." With markedly fresh and vivid imagery, she employs memory's non-linearity, giving us striking elegies, eulogies, and tributes-poems to both her dead and living loved-ones. Taking us into her confidence, telling us her secrets, Prinzmetal gives us a rare gift. Courageous and movingly intimate, her voice speaks the poignant music of mortality, 'the cadence between pain's husky gasps.'"
—Paulann Petersen

"One marvel of Each Unkept Secret is how the sequence weaves deeper into a life by way of evocative touchstones. As the striking poems wend through detail and damage with a quiet, relentless courage, we come to care for the fullness of a family. Yet, Prinzmetal is wily, too. What we know is as important as what we don't, and the absence makes room for a haunting, underlying silence."
—John C. Morrison

"Though she describes loss as 'a foreign country I had visited / against my will,' in these searing poems, Donna Prinzmetal maps the territory of loss and grief with a compelling emotional precision. Each Unkept Secret is a revelatory book."
—John Brehm