Desireé Dallagiacomo
poetry, creative non fiction, and essays on process and craft along with announcements and community offerings periodically to your inbox.
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Publication news + this season of poetics and teaching (opens the original)
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Hi, friendsFor the first time ever, I have a poem published in this month’s issue of POETRY magazine !!! Honestly a milestone I never thought I’d reach, and have just been basking in the glow of the opportunity. You can pick up a copy at any Barnes & Noble or a local bookstore that carries POETRY, or you can order it online! You can also read the poem, Offo Achukma, and hear me read it aloud here. I started the poem at my <a href="
My Best Friend Died & I Walk Alone Through the Woods (opens the original)
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The call came as I was standing in a field, lavender in bloom at my back. He was dead by then, had been dead without me knowing. Are you driving? his sister on the other end of the phone asked. Are you somewhere safe? she pleaded. I turned away and walked toward the field, loud chatter about nothing worth another moment faded into smoke. I inhaled swift and sharp, eyes darting from color to color on the horizon. Tina, don’t tell me what I think you’re going to tell me. No way to know how I knew,
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