I know we are creek people. Thirsty
& waiting. We are a family that uses fire. We are tender. 
That does not mean we are hopeless.


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.