Darren C. Demaree

Darren's poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Hotel Amerika, Diode, North American Review, New Letters, Diagram, and The Colorado Review. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over(March 2018), which was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press. Darren is the Managing Editor of The Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

EMILY AS A WINTER BERRY
EMILY AS I READ HER JORIE GRAHAM’S THE END OF BEAUTY WHILE SHE MADE DINNER FOR THE FIVE OF US
[when the blisters come]