submerging poet, dad, editor ~ place, bodies, belonging, the end of the world ~ masthead @VariantLit.bsky.social @PhillyChapbook.bsky.social ~ he/him ~
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D.W. Baker
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If you liked my three linked tanka poems in @apconmag.bsky.social last week, or my biblical golden shovel in @plaguecircus.bsky.social yesterday, or if you just like Sator Squares --
you'll love my latest, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios's Cup," in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social's miCRo series
"nightly departure
into the dreaming
water made of wave
forms oscillating in
to the body’s container..."
In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.
D.W. Baker
Read a #chapbook #review of Marie Scarles' The Catastrophes by contributing editor, D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social). #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @finishinglinepress.bsky.social
phillychapbookreview.org/the-lines-of...
The Cincinnati Review
"nightly departure
into the dreaming
water made of wave
forms oscillating in
to the body’s container..."
In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.
Our Issue 8 Reader's Choice Award nomination break down...
We've got 1 vote in for D.W. Baker's @lowermelody.bsky.social
"To Hold"
Read it: engineidling.net/current
By an Anonymous Nominator...
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“Scarles’ choice of title points away from place, and toward the book’s deeper and more powerful offering: a changed way of seeing, one of the hallmarks of any successful poetics.” Read the full chapb...
"Proverbs 20:27," one of the golden shovels in my new chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social), was first published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social in 2024.
Here is the opening paragraph of my latest review, up today at @phillychapbook.bsky.social: "The Lines of Landscape: on THE CATASTROPHES by Marie Scarles" (2025: @finishinglinepress.bsky.social)
turningleafjournal.com/2024/05/31/p...
phillychapbookreview.org/the-lines-of...
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What do you need right now? Maybe you need my odd new poem about Jane Goodall’s Hologram in @variantlit.bsky.social's new Summer Issue...
variantlit.com/jane-goodall/
The Cincinnati Review
Philly Chapbook Review
the engine(idling lit
Proverbs 20:27By DW Baker I was nine, ten? when theruinous edifices of humanlanguage molded my spiritinto altared forms. It isrote entanglement, theserpent’s apple: my lampbears its own witness. Of…
“Scarles’ choice of title points away from place, and toward the book’s deeper and more powerful offering: a changed way of seeing, one of the hallmarks of any successful poetics.” Read the full chapb...
phillychapbookreview.org
The first title in the fifth wheel press 2026 Pride Microchapbook Series.
D.W. Baker is a poet, reviewer, and editor from St. Petersburg, Florida. Hi...
