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Diane Thiel's new poetry book, Questions From Outer Space, appeared in 2022 from Red Hen Press!

     ★ Questions from Outer Space is the WINNER of the 2023 Independent Press Award in Poetry.
     ★ "Listening in Deep Space" has been selected for Best American Poetry 2023 (Scribner).

See information about the book and author's profile at publisher's web site.

Sample poems from another book in progress!

"The Blank Museum", forthcoming in The Hudson Review, Fall 2023.

"Matryoshka in Odessa", The Common, Summer 2023.

"Green Honey and Violet Sheep", The Harvard Review, Fall 2021.

"Shadow and Light", Ecotone, Fall 2021.

"Mosaic in Pompeii", Asheville Poetry Review, Fall 2021. Selected for reprint by Verse Daily, 2022.

"Yard Sailing", storySouth, Spring 2021.

"In the Distance", Delmarva Review, 2021. Nominated for Pushcart Prize in 2022! Republished in 2022 (with author's note) in Talbot Spy, Chestertown Spy, and Cambridge Spy.

"First Light" in Delmarva Review, 2021. Republished in 2022 (with author's note) in Talbot Spy, Chestertown Spy, and Cambridge Spy.

"Demeter in the Seminar", K'in, 2021.

"Stars on Fire", The Rush, 2021.

Sample poems from Questions From Outer Space published in 2021-2023:

"The Typewriter", Dappled Things, 2023.

"On Foot", The Common (Amherst), 2022.

"Listening in Deep Space", Birmingham Poetry Review, No. 49, 2022.

"Questions of Time and Direction", Terrain, September 2021.

"The Multiverse", "Under the Lawrence Tree",The Hudson Review, Fall 2021.

"Time Won't Do It"; "Kummerspeck", The Notre Dame Review, Issue 52, Summer 2021.

"Measure by Time" Louisiana Literature, Issue 38/1.

"Sticks and Stones" and "Spaceship with Saint Giovannino" First Things.

"Assimilation; Field Notes from the Biolayer" The 2River View, Summer 2021.

"Astronaut Training" The 2River View, Spring 2021.

"Tritina in the Time of the Machine" Cathexis, June 2021.

"Remotely; Living with Aliens" American Journal of Poetry, Vol. 11, July 2021.

Sample poems from Questions From Outer Space published in 2020:

"The Farthest Side" Prime Number Magazine (PNM Poetry Award-tied for 2nd place).

"High Noon at the Remote Corral" Rattle.

"Sleeping Dogs" The Hopkins Review.

"Outback" First Things.

"The Factory (A Report from Outer Space); Notice from Another Dimension; Hiatus" The Hudson Review.

The Dark Horse (Scotland), The Festival Review, Catamaran, and Cordella, among others.