Denise Duhamel is the author of the forthcoming "American Melancholy: Poems" (Ecco). She is Visiting Distinguished Professor in the English Dept. at Rutgers for the spring term 2023.

Other poems by Denise Duhamel in Verse Daily:
March 1, 2024:   "Poem in Which I Serenade My Lost Friends" "In a Sex and the City episode Charlotte says, 'Maybe our girlfriends..."
February 9, 2024:   "The West Village"
November 13, 2023:   "Death Dream" "In the dream I keep losing my mother..."
April 5, 2016:   "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" (w/Maureen Seaton)"Florida's state bird is the crane, by which we mean..."
March 6, 2013:   "Recession Commandments" "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house..."
September 21, 2005:   "eBay Sonnets" " The first time I moved to a warm climate..."
March 19, 2005:  "Noah and Joan "" It's not that I'm proud of the fact..."

Other poems on the web by Denise Duhamel:
Two poems
Fourteen poems
Two poems
"A Different Story"
Four poems
Sixty poems
"I've Been Known"
"Ai"
Three poems
Two poems
"Fläneuse"
"Another Summer of Love"
Two poems

Denise Duhamel's Website.

Maureen Seaton (1947-2023) authored over two dozen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative. Her recent solo collections are Undersea (JackLeg, 2021) and Sweet World (CavanKerry, 2019), winner of the 2019 Florida Book Award for poetry. Her recent co-authored collections are Myth America (Anhinga Press, 2020), a chapbook with Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, and Holly Iglesias; and Zero-Zero (Hysterical Press, 2021), a chapbook with Kristine Snodgrass. Her honors include Lambda Literary Awards for both Lesbian Poetry and Lesbian Memoir, the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award, an NEA, and the Pushcart. She was voted Miami's Best Poet 2020 by The Miami New Times.

Other poems by Maureen Seaton in Verse Daily:
January 21, 2022:   "Postcard from Old Hollywood Beach" "My gallow's-humor grandmother and my Scorpionic ex-boyfriend stand..."
June 25, 2018:   "Infidel" "Don't pretend you've got a corner on grave idols..."
April 5, 2016:   "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" "Florida's state bird is the crane, by which we mean..." (with Denise Duhamel)
June 24, 2013:   "fish Tales" "Look at her, all ocean...."
February 4, 2012:   "The Boat with a Boy's Heart" "He was a small boy—lighter than a shrimp boat..." (with Neil de la Flor)
September 6, 2002:  "When I Was Straight" "....I read a book that said if you are fickle...."
August 1, 2002:  "Fiddleheads" "The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot..."

Other poems on the web by Maureen Seaton:
"Patience of the Light"
Two poems
Four poems
Three poems
"Palm Sunday"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
"When I Was Bi(nary)"
"Whiteout"
Two poems
Five poems

Maureen Seaton's Website.

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