Danielle Cadena Deulen
Danielle Cadena Deulen is an assistant professor for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and hosts Lit from the Basement a literary podcast and radio show (at KMUZ 100.7 FM). She is the author of a memoir, The Riots; two poetry collections, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us and Lovely Asunder; and a poetry chapbook, American Libretto.
Reading List
Two Loves, Both Ending Badly
1. You think you haven’t decided, the story’s turn still a question. But when he leans toward you his leather-pine scent, his eyes searching your face, you remember loneliness—tired of the taste of your own mouth, tired of feeling your body’s singularity in the dark. But there’s more to it than just pleasure—a mutual sadness […]
Reasonable Doubt
After the acquittal of the police shooting of Philando Castile The problem is, lately, I am the elliptical leaves of a birch—not even the whole organism, just the top swaying above a clock tower. The sky has some clouds. The sky has some clouds— a statement so vague no one could convict it. Another trial […]
Gaslight
A building swallowed me in its gray hollows, I mean hallways. The beige walls bloomed pink then red in my mind, ripening fruit with the spicy stench of verbatim, I mean Vibernum—each berry a bomb, a qualm I had with his teeth, the sheer number of them. That’s not right. He was dear to me, […]