F. Daniel Rzicznek's Blog

I'm thrilled to share that my poem "Growing Down" is featured as poem-of-the-week at The Missouri Review. You can read the poem and a note on it's inception here:

https://www.missourireview.com/f-dani...

I'm stoked to announce that Free Verse Editions will publish my third full-length poetry collection, Settlers, in late 2018. See the press release below for further details. I'm thrilled to have FVE bring more of my work into the world.

http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse2018

I won't be at AWP this year, but my newest chapbook will be there. Visit Orange Monkey Publishing at bookfair table N29 to check it out.

A short bit about two new poems published at Banango Street.

http://www.waccamawjournal.com/

I'm happy to announce that today Verse Daily is featuring my poem "Anima" from Vine River Hermitage. Head on over and check it out here: http://www.versedaily.org/

Yes, I'm featured reading poems on this website. Yes, I have trouble listening to the sound of my own voice. No, that's not why you should listen. It's a lovely site with a ton of great contributors that I'm flattered to appear with. Listen to poems? Why not?

http://www.onepausepoetry.org/explore...

Vine River Hermitage, my new chapbook of poems, is now available from Cooper Dillon Books. Weighing in at 34 pages and sporting beautiful art and design, Vine River Hermitage draws together a formally and thematically eclectic mix of poems written over the last six or so years. (I’m actively seeking reviewers as well as opportunities for readings/events—please feel free to contact me if you’re interested in either.)

If you’re heading to this year’s AWP conference in Chicago, Vine River Hermitage will be available at the Cooper Dillon bookfair table at the special conference price of $7 (cover price being $9). If you’re not going to AWP, you can still take advantage of the conference discount via Cooper Dillon’s Website (http://www.cooperdillon.com) now through March 3. Cooper Dillon Books is an independent publisher of poetry. By ordering directly from them, you’ll be supporting a group of incredibly devoted individuals who (despite day jobs!) use their spare time to bring projects such as this one into being.

Here's a poem from the chapbook:

Vine River I


He holds the map up to the mountainside,
a thing in the sky turning to earth.
To be a map of a face without lines,
to be a turning thing in the sky.
A line on the map means hunger—
a room filled with mounted deer and birds.
What she fears is the totem of anything.

All maps lead to and from the here.
She preferred pines groaning in the wind—
when they move from there, long ripples.
The maps were bright, although blank.
Nothing could be said for their cheerfulness,
no center would do, no heart would match.
A named place indicates days passing by.

Late, they heard bridges dying in the cold.
Silent faces at the end of dinner.
He was not talking to her, but to himself.
Blood at the mouth’s northern edge.
Their years together became something true.
A moose came knocking snow from boughs
and she stopped making words for real things.

It's been a good year for poetry. 2010 saw the release of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice...

...and recognition from the Ohio Arts Council in the form of a 2010 Individual Excellence Award.