"...You are
not-real and real, your memory
ruined, a knot that cannot be undone,
your first self no longer real, the self
you have become only real in seconds,
a definition that is not real as we
consider a real self."
- excerpt from A reminder
2025
“On being immaterial“, Second Coming No. 167 — July 5, 2025, Indolent Books
“A reminder“, American Literary Review, Spring 2025
“I can’t name this poem for five days because that’s how long the pathologist takes“, RHINO Poetry, 2025
“Ekphrasis Borghese“, Scrivener Creative Review, Summer Feature, 2025
“Wool-gathering“, Scrivener Creative Review, Issue 46, Spring 2025
“American sonnet on finding out“, Tulsa Review, Issue 12: 2025-26
“There, I Fixed It For You“, Letters Journal, Issue 16 [Winter 2025]
“An American Sonnet On Late Stage Eden“, The Nature of Our Times, November 2025
“Saxophone practice, Meghalayan Age“, Bicoastal Review, Issue 8, January 2025
“Honey“, Wilderness House Review, Volume 8 Number 2
2024
“our hands know better than to ask for a slice, you understand“, Quarterly West, Issue 113, 2024
“American sonnet on fundraising emails less than 50 days“, The Courtship of Winds, Issue 12-3 Election 2024
“Night after Dobbs“, The Courtship of Winds, Issue 12-3 Election 2024
“Bringing down the flowers“, “A sonnet of abandoned sonnets I am afraid to keep writing“, NELLE, Issue 7, 2024
“Ekphrasis in search of a painting“, Cathexis Northwest, July-August 2024
“Stung“, Canary, Summer Solstice 2024 issue number 65
“American sonnet in Rome“, Canary, Summer Solstice 2024 issue number 65
“Thank you to the woman leaning out her window and drumming as we marched for Roe in 2022“, Yellow Arrow Journal, ELEVATE, Vol. IX, No. 1, Spring 2024 – Live Reading [Video]
“douter“, the stonecoast Review, Winter 2024 Issue 20
“Sprung“, Folly
2023
“Plimoth, during the next wave of plague“, Mantis, Issue 21 (2023)
“Well, shit“, Heavy Feather Review, Volume 13, Sept. 2023
“Kitchens“, New York Poetry Society, Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2023
“The better part of valor“, Pilgrimage Press, Volume 44 Issue 1 & 2, June 2023
“I hate to be apocalyptic, my friend said in The New York Times“, Juked, Summer 2023
“Naturally“, The Tonic, Issue 001: BEGINNINGS, 2023
“Stock“, Cider Press Review, Volume 25 Issue 1, 2023
“Bellman’s lost in a forest problem“, Pembroke Magazine, Issue No. 55 2023
“Reconciliation“, Lines + Stars, Winter/Spring 2023
“Unexpected costs of living“, Stone Canoe, Number 17
“Doubt“, Lines + Stars, Winter/Spring 2023
“A record, not vinyl“, Interim, Volume 39, Issue 4, 2023
“If every time is is different“, Lullwater Review
“This is a love poem is you squint hard enough“, “You Should Be Flattered“, Louisville Review, Winter 2023, Volume XXXVIII, No. 3
“Ubi sunt“, The Pinch, Spring 2023 (43.1)
“You Are Unkind, Local News, The MacGuffin, Winter 2023, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3
“Dear Alien Overlords, Evil Supervillains, Misguided Scientists and Hikers Who Said What the Hell and Ate the Mushroom“, Jabberwock Review, Issue 43.2 Winter/Spring 2023
“failed cartouche“, The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon, Volume 2
“Madama Bovary, c’est moi“, Plume, Issue #138, February 2023
2022
“Nineteen Years of Mourning Correctly?“, The Ocean State Review
“Where there is a nick of time“, “The Secret“, ucity review, Issue 25, December 2022
“Consider the example: the example is death“, North Dakota Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2022
“burning, bright“, The New England Poetry Club, October 2022, Honorable Mention, Samuel Washington Allen Prize
“Dismay greets end of U.S. effort to curb spread of tree-killing beetle, January 2021…”, J Journal, Fall 2022
“Flight path“, Invisible City, Issue 5, September 2022
“The world is too much“, Inklette Magazine, Issue 14 2022 (with video reading)
“this is what we talk about, the women you don’t pay any attention to.” Salamander Magazine.
“Headlines.” [PANK] 1.1.
“Fourteen lines that have nothing to do with your dick.” Dialogist, September 2, 2022.
“Turritopsis dohrnii, philosopher’s stone, monstrous moonshine.” Moist Poetry Journal, August 17, 2022.
“Witness,” “On dream of dollhouses found buried.” The Rialto 98, Summer 2022. (see also Esther Morgan’s blog entry, “Crow Drop”, reflecting on this poem).
“They’re Everywhere.” New York Quarterly, Online Issue 68.1.
“Vermeer’s ‘Lacemaker’ is the smallest of his paintings.” The Madison Review, Vol. 48, Spring 2022.
“Grounded,” “Survey Deficiency Free.” The Trinity Review 134, Winter Issue (PDF).
“Scale”, “Every night I take unreliable narrator to the next level and Ferlinghetti understands.” The Wild Word.
“Trying to decide what bird Hungarian reminds me of based on reading a book in translation.” Faultline.
“Cavafy’s Deathbed.” Epoch Press.
“Archaeology.” Crab Creek Review, Vol. 1 2022.
“We Never Left Eden, We Never Left the Snake Behind.” Little Patuxent Review, Winter 2022 Issue
“Fifth wave, sixth, seventh? In 1820, the abolition of slavery was as far away as I am old“, Ethel, Volume 9, Winter 2022
Video reading, Little Patuxent Review Winter 2022 Issue Virtual Launch event.
“Meet our Contributors: Q&A with Daisy Bassen.” Little Patuxent Review, June 14, 2022.
“If I became devout, doubtless I’d be driven to acts of heroism,” “On burning mirrors,” and “Medium, measured. (PDF)” BlazeVOX Journal, Spring 22 issue.
2021
“Reformation,” “Sonnet for Andrea.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2021.
“Kintsukuroi.” New England Poetry Club, December 11, 2021.
“Qua.” Oxford Magazine, Issue 47.
“Isn’t it still before?”, “To my daughter“, Miracle Monacle, Issue 16, 2021.
“Brood X“, SEISMA Magazine, Studiolab: 03 Entomology, 2021
“Nothing for Something,” “General.” The Literary Bohemian, Issue 24, Autumn 2021.
“Unfortunately,” “Defenestration.” Vita Brevis Press, September 23, 2021.
“Daniel, I love you better now than I ever did then“, A-Minor, September 20, 2021
“Perseveration.” YES Poetry, September 2021 Poet of the Month.
“The form of tragedy”, Ghost City Press, July 18, 2021
“Whither thou goest“, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, April 30, 2021
“Gamble.” ONE ART, March 14, 2021.
“April is the cruelest month, I thought when it was April“, Detour Ahead Art, March 2021
2020 and before
“(cherita)“, Napkin Poetry Review, December 2020
“Optional reading, American History 201, the year 20— (assuming we don’t ruin it all); Get Out: The Vote“, About Place Journal, Volume VI, Issue II, October 2020
“Protestation“, Analytic Room, October 2020
Meet the Writer: Daisy Bassen (video), , October 2020
“Ground Glass.” McSweeney’s, May 16, 2020
“Pawnshop.” Smartish Pace. Winner, 16th Annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize, May 29 2020. (Video Reading – YouTube)
“Use of Force.” K’IN.
“An Elemental: A Sonnet“, Rock Paper Poem, 2020
“Tell Me How You Feel and I’ll Tell You How You Feel.” Smartish Pace. Winner, 21st Annual Erskine Poetry Prize (2020).
“Cocktail“, Packingtown Review, Vol. 13, Spring 2020
“Background“, Atlanta Review, Poetry 2019
“Materia Physica”, “Apple Picking“, Guest House, Issue 3, Spring 2019
“Set“, Press 53, Issue 157, April-June, 2019
“Crepuscule“, LIT Magazine, Issue #33, 2019
“An accounting“, Thirty West, February 2019
“New Types of Irreducibility Criteria; Grace Hopper, 1906-1992“,”I accept this the way I accept sugar is sweet“, Iris, January, 2019
“Epithalmion.” Delmarva Review, Volume 11, December 3, 2018. (Nominated for a Pushcart Award).
“Some Say the World Will End“, Tuck, November 28, 2018
“Defenestration“, Finalist, Adelaide Literary Award, Adelaide Literary Award Anthology, 2018
“Queens“, MORIA, Issue Two, Fall, 2018
“Driving“, TINGE Magazine, Issue 15, Fall 2018
“Catherine-Wheel,” “Ancestor,” “Grief,” “Treatment,” “Seven A.M. Was Yellow and Gold.” Delmarva Review, Volume 11, October 18, 2018.
“The Old Graveyard in Boonton, NJ.” Arcturus, May 2018.
“Bantam“, The Opiate, May 3, 2018
“Consent“, The Opiate, May 2, 2018
“My darling“, The Opiate, May 1, 2018
“Signs“, American Medical Women’s Association: A Gallery of Writing, Issue 1, Winter 2017-2018
“Commitment“, AACAP News, May-June 2016, Volume 47, Issue 3
Daisy Bassen 