Welcome to the website for Danielle Cadena Deulen, author, professor and podcast host. Her latest poetry collection, Desire Museum, will be published with BOA Editions next fall (2023). She has published a memoir, The Riots, two poetry collections, Lovely Asunder and Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, and a poetry chapbook, American Libretto. She is co-creator and host of "Lit from the Basement," a poetry podcast, and an assistant professor in the graduate creative writing program at GSU in Atlanta.
When Pandora opened her box she found
an empty box. The moon, just a sharp hook of light above her--
lacuna in the flesh of the sky.
Sometimes the idea of the thing
is more dangerous than the thing itself.
And after, of course, the gods had someone to blame.
an empty box. The moon, just a sharp hook of light above her--
lacuna in the flesh of the sky.
Sometimes the idea of the thing
is more dangerous than the thing itself.
And after, of course, the gods had someone to blame.