DMQ Review

06/12/2025

Fantastic poem by current DMQ Review contributor, Bill Rector up at Rattle.

Last night I kept pulling gloves from the pockets of my coat. O abyss of my winter coat’s pockets!

01/12/2025

Be kind to yourself. Come listen to some poetry.
December DMQ Virtual Salon featuring
JILL MICHELLE, FRANK RUBINO, and ERIK MANUEL SOTO
Live all month~ www.dmqreview.com/salon

24/11/2025

01/11/2025

Excited to share these terrific new poetry books with samples read by the authors. We're so excited to present the November 2025 Salon! Featuring HOLLI CARRELL, rob mclennan, and PaulA Neves. Live all month: www.dmqreview.com/salon

01/10/2025

October's DMQ Virtual Salon is full of poetic treats. Check out these terrific new books with samples read by their authors, featuring BILL HOLLANDS, DANIEL LASSELL, and SHANNON K. WINSTON.
Live all month~ www.dmqreview.com/salon

27/09/2025

Much sadness to hear of Jennifer Martelli's passing.

When I crossed Humphrey Street on my way to the short brick row of shops—bank, dry cleaner, deli, liquor store (everything but a place to buy rope)—I passed under the worms dangling from the maples, and for a moment, I didn’t feel afraid, jealous, unnoticed, hungry, hot. I heard a siren from b...

23/09/2025

Congratulations Poets and Artists!

14/09/2025

Fall 2025: Now live~www.dmqreview.com

DMQ Review proudly presents our latest Prose Poem Issue.

As a way to further expand our universe, please dive in to the latest issue featuring both new and familiar prose poem practitioners including Kara Arguello, Cassandra Atherton & Paul Hetherington, Amanda Chiado, Pat Daneman, Malcolm Dean, Lydia Copeland Gwyn, Michael Harper, Amorak Huey, Jill McCabe Johnson, Richard Jordan, Diane LeBlanc, David Lehman, A. Molotkov, Bill Rector, Hajer Requiq, Lisa Rosenberg, Meighan L. Sharp, Kenton K. Yee, and Joshua Zeitler!

Special thanks to artist Peter Rostovsky whose amazing images bring visual poetry to our pages.
Thanks for reading with us.

AND
Congratulations to Denise Duhamel whose poem
"Poem in which this 'Fathead Fat Ass' Admits it"
from Fall 2024 appears in Best American Poetry 2025!
We admit to being very proud.

01/09/2025

September! The planet keeps spinning, faster and faster. Slow it all down with readings from three new books of poetry. Hauntings! Rewildings! Gothic fever dream! featuring new books by Kirk Glaser, Sandra Marchetti, and Theodora Ziolkowski. Live all month at dmqreview.com/salon

25/08/2025

We're so proud that Denise Duhamel's fantastic piece, 'POEM IN WHICH THIS FATHEAD “FAT ASS” ADMITS IT' published in our Fall 2024 issue appears in David Lehman's final edition of The Best American Poetry, guest edited by Terrence Winch and forthcoming in September. Congratulations Denise Duhamel and thanks for sharing your "Best" work with DMQ Review!
Read all about it: https://www.dmqreview.com/duhamelf24