DMQ Review

08/08/2024

You can pre-order DMQ Review editor Hilary King's new book now!

Another beautiful blurb for Stitched on Me, this one from Sally Ashton. If you haven't pre-ordered Stitched on Me by Hilary Rogers King head to the link in the comments, books will begin shipping in about 6 weeks!!

01/08/2024

Staying cool? Chillax with these three fab new books of poetry. Featuring Laura Isabela Amsel, Katie Berta, and James Gering! www.dmqreview.com/salon

09/07/2024

DMQ editor Hilary Rogers King's latest book ready for pre-order. Congratulations, Hilary!

Stitched on Me is a collection of poems about coming into your own, about feeling comfortable and confident enough to know when to say f**k it! and to know when to stand your ground and fight. These poems take the reader on a journey through self-discovery that can only come with age and living thro...

01/07/2024

We've got FIREWORKS! of the poetry kind for you, just in time for hot summer days or nights. Or both. Three new books of poetry. Three terrific poets. Listen in. Live all month~featuring NANCY MILLER GOMEZ, JOHN LINSTROM, & CINTIA SANTANA! www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/06/2024

Summertime . . .almost . . . and what could be more welcome than 3 new terrific books of poetry, of course!
Listen in, featuring LISA COLLYER, DARREN C. DEMAREE, and V.C. MYERS. Live all month~

01/06/2024

May we recommend these three women poets and their three exciting new books of poems! Feminists. Dreamers. Fabulist philosophers. Listen in. Live all month~ dmqreview.com/salon featuring 🌠Grace Cavalieri 🌠Sarah Kain Gutowski 🌠Sarah Maclay

15/05/2024

Check out editor Sally Ashton's interview and this new prose poem journal, The Mackinaw.

Interview: Sally Ashton, On Listening to Mars The Mackinaw: Tell us something about your writing journey and how prose poetry became a part of it. Sally Ashton: I began what could be described...

08/04/2024

From our editor Cheilek at The Shore. Hope you had a good one!

The sentence is a series of arrested falls.On the ground, under the trees, a saltof crescents. In the path of totality peoplestop traffic and step out. Eyes riveted tothe moment. All the nows hitched upclanking like articulated railcarson a lonely freight line. Blur of station.Snatch of whistle. Sna...

07/04/2024

DMQ Review open for submissions of prose poems~
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01/04/2024

What does demolition, an angel, and the owl have in common? Exciting poets and great poetry, that's what! Cozy up by the fire as spring does its rainy old thing or sit outside in the blooming sunshine with readings from three new books of poetry for National Poetry Month! Featuring Willa Carroll, David Denny, and Ken Weisner. www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/03/2024

March! And we do, marching toward Spring and all. And what's a little mud and rain (or a ton of snow???) when you can listen to readings from 3 new books of poetry including Francesca Bell, Dion O'Reilly, and yours truly. www.dmqreview.com/salon

12/02/2024

Winter 2024: Wet. Windy. Wild. Often wonderful. What an unpredictable winter it's been, and it ain't over yet! Be of good cheer. You can warm up (or cool down!) with this inspiring compilation of prose poems featuring the work of both new and familiar practitioners including Liz Abrams-Morley, Cassandra Atherton & Paul Hetherington, Harold Bowes, Jackie Craven, Lauren Crux, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Lauren Delapenha, Jeff Friedman, Julia Glencer, Eva Heisler, Courtney Hitson, Amorak Huey, Peter Klein, Veronica Kornberg, Leslie Lewis, A. Molotkov, Amanda Quaid, Michael Rogner, Liam Strong, Brendan Todt, and Robin Turner! Now live~ www.dmqreview.com

01/02/2024

Here comes February with readings from 3 new books of poetry. It's not Groundhog's Day . . . More like Leap Year! Leap with us into a brand new selection of exciting readings. Listen, and listen again. Well, maybe that's like Ground Hog's Day, but well worth it. Live all month! Featuring LYNN DOMINA, JEFF FRIEDMAN, and KAREN POPPY. www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/01/2024

We welcome 2024 with Virtual Salon readings from 3 new books of poetry. From the telenovela to Richie Valens to rural America, these books are sure to energize and inspire your New Year. Come and listen. Live all month~featuring Susana H. Case, J. Michael Martinez and Kristen Staby Rembold www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/12/2023

December, the darkest month of the year. No wonder humans look for ways to celebrate Light, Peace, and Joy even when these seem so very far away. Our hearts yearn towards them.
In this spirit we offer 3 new books featuring LAUREN CRUX, JODIE HOLLANDER and LINDA RAVENSWOOD. Listen in.
Live all month~ www.dmqreview.com/salon

22/11/2023

It is with great pleasure that we nominate the following poets for the Pushcart Prize in poetry from DMQ Review this year! How thankful we are for them, their work, all our contributors and readers. Cheers!
-Ronda Piszk Broatch “Chaos as Magical Thinking, or Swoon Hypothesis”
-Hannah Engel, “The Crew of Apollo 13 Reports from Lunar Orbit”
-Ken Haas, “swastika”
-Pamilerin Jacob, “THEŌRÍA [θεωρÍα]”
-John Randall, “They Were Monarchs”
-Leonora Simonovis, “Conception”

01/11/2023

These days we couldn't be more thankful for YOU, our readers, and especially for poets and their new books, each so unique and each a generous offering of themselves.
November brings 3 more great readers to our Virtual Salon for your listening pleasure including CAROL V. DAVIS, LISA DORDAL,and BRIAN TURNER! www.dmqreview.com/salon

25/10/2023

Download this fabulous FREE new book of prose poems from "Mr. Prose Poem" himself, former contributor Peter Johnson!
https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=english_fac

The following fragments/prose poems are from my new book called Observations from the Edge of the Abyss, which Plume has graciously offered to launch by providing the URL at the end of this little intro. Perhaps the best way to explain what I am up to is to blame it on Bill Knott. In 1999, the eccen...

01/10/2023

🎃🎃🎃October is rolling at you like the big orange pumpkiny thing that it is, and the DMQ Virtual Salon is ready for it! Cooler days, cozier times. Pop some corn or a bottle of something and check out these readings featuring Annis Cassells, Brittney Corrigan, and Linda Nemec Foster. www.dmqreview.com/salon

28/09/2023

New poem by editor Hilary Rogers King up at A-Minor. Congratulations!

by Hilary King who slipped into the empty workshop and gathered feathers and bits of leather from the floor. Callused from cooking and carrying, fetchingand mending, her hands could endure the…

26/09/2023

  Film Life   Tom WhalenTwo Poems Holly IglesiasInto the Folds Ann WeilBlack Madeira John NewsonTwo Poems   Ray GonzalezLittle Boy Kathy NilssonTwo Poems Nicole Zdeb1975 Beth HahnTwo Poems Jonathan YungkansDear Audre Molly Sutton Kiefer Dear Gundog Magazine Chris HuntingtonWhat Is It That You Wa...

26/09/2023

🥳It is with great pleasure that the editors of DMQ Review announce the nominations of the following poems from our Spring 2023 issue for a Best of the Net Award. Congratulations Poets🥳! Thanks for sharing your work with us.

Ronda Piszk Broatch, “Chaos as Magical Thinking, or Swoon Hypothesis”
Chris Huntington, “Dear Gundog Magazine”
Rachel Karyo, "Autobiography of a Zipper"
Molly Sutton Kiefer, “Dear Audre”
John Newson, “Black Madeira”
Jonathan Yungkans, "Answering Neruda (13)"

Find their great poems and more here: https://www.dmqreview.com/spring23toc
We wish we could have nominated ALL of our contributors. Every poet we publish is the best in our opinion. Cheers!

  Film Life   Tom WhalenTwo Poems Holly IglesiasInto the Folds Ann WeilBlack Madeira John NewsonTwo Poems   Ray GonzalezLittle Boy Kathy NilssonTwo Poems Nicole Zdeb1975 Beth HahnTwo Poems Jonathan YungkansDear Audre Molly Sutton Kiefer Dear Gundog Magazine Chris HuntingtonWhat Is It That You Wa...

01/09/2023

September's DMQ Virtual Salon featuring readings from 3 exciting new books of poetry. From the "next next world," to Frankenstein, to Baseball, there's absolutely something for everyone. Check it out. www.dmqreview.com/salon

27/08/2023

"Boulder Triptych" by Maureen Seaton whose work we are so proud to have featured in DMQ Review's Fall 2021 prose poem issue.

I used to call my high school teachers Sisters of St. Joe, which meant I was on close terms with both the nuns and the saint, who disappeared like frankincense into the lives of his wife and son. I like Niedecker’s poem, “If I Were a Bird,” the way she called upon the names of poets as if they...

16/08/2023

SUMMER ISSUE HAS DROPPED! www.dmqreview.com Another exciting compilation of prose poems featuring the work of both new and familiar practitioners including Angela Ball, John Bradley, Brandel France del Bravo, Hannah Engel, Christa Fairbrother, H.E. Fisher, Ken Haas, Nels Highberg, Pamilerin Jacob, Kathy Jiang, Kathleen McGookey, Aparna Paul, David Perez, Doug Ramspeck, John Randall, Bill Rector, Gwen Sayers, Benjamin Schroeder, Marc Sheehan, Leonora Simonovis, and Liam Strong ~ ARTWORK by Kathryn Dunlevie! Check it out

15/08/2023

Summer Issue is afoot...

01/08/2023

Tune-in to the August 2023 DMQ Virtual Salon featuring these terrific poets reading from their exciting new books: Mildred Kiconco Barya, Tresha Faye Haefner, and Peter Johnson!
Be cool. Check them out. www.dmqreview.com

01/07/2023

The July 2023 DMQ Virtual Salon features these dynamite poets reading from their beautiful new books including James Brasfield, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, and Tracy Youngblom!
Check out the fireworks. www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/06/2023

The June 2023 DMQ Virtual Salon features these terrific poets reading from their new books for your pleasure. Check it out.
Featuring Doug Sutton-Ramspeck reading from Blur; Gemma White reading from Oh My Rapture; and Megan Wildhood reading from Bowed As If Laden With Snow! www.dmqreview.com/salon