Denise duhamel
Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also served as a guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.
Who hunts the animal (experience)
and who kills it? Who butchers filets (prose)
and tosses this poet emotional scraps?
As a poet, one of our superpowers is to compress time, expand time, collage a timeline so that time is not the linear arbitrator of life. I have found that poetry does help me deal with grief, connect with the grief of others, and feel not so alone.
January 7, 2024
