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Denise Duhamel

Denise Duhamel is, most recently, the author of Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Scald (Pittsburgh, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In Which (2024) is a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize. She and the late Maureen Seaton co-authored five collections, the most recent of which are CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015) and Tilt (Bridwell Press, 2025). Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and her book of lyric essays with Julie Marie Wade is The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019). A recipient of NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, she also is a distinguished university professor at Florida International University in Miami.

  • The Last Time I Saw My Mother Before the Pandemic, #Me Too & Ready

    was on Valentine’s Day 2020. The residents who were able to sit up

  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • Dear American Amnesia

    I know you are only trying to make

  • The Unreturning, 2019

    Suddenly cops crushed black citizens, hurled

  • ALL THE BOYS

    my face is old now

  • THE OMEN IN WOMEN

    It is only playing Words With Friend

  • Danger: A Triptych

    I thought at first it was a rock, a pebble my own tire had somehow kicked up in a weird curve.  I kept driving to my

  • Paradise

    Our little vacation town in Spain is packed.  The driving, slow. Things have changed