D.W. Baker 🪐💀🏳️‍🌈🍃

Poetry Reader for Variant Lit

Poetry Editor for Libre

Guest Editor for GOD/CORPSE: writing on the bipolar body, from The Circus Collective

Poetry Editor for Divinations Magazine

Poetry Reader for Cosmic Daffodil Journal

Poetry Reader for Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal

Knowing and Naming: On THESE STRANGE BODIES by Court Ludwick

Beginning in the Body: On HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE by Leela Raj-Sankar

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"Proverbs 2:22," "[ringed death]," and "There Was a Forest" in ballast

"Motto," "Lovers' Script," and "If the next rise doesn't get us," in Magazine1

"I know a guy who's soft and tough" in the engine(idling #5: Trashy Daydreams

five poems forthcoming in Black Stone / White Stone

three poems forthcoming in Rough Diamond Poetry

two poems forthcoming in Akpata Magazine

two poems forthcoming in Black Glass Pages

one poem forthcoming in BROKEN ANTLER #6: time

one poem forthcoming in Genrepunk Magazine

one poem forthcoming in The Borough

one poem forthcoming in Bakunawa Press

one poem forthcoming in Hunter's Affects

"Meteorite" in Identity Theory (✨️nominated✨️ for Best of the Net)

"Alchemists' Hymn" in Poems for Persons of Interest (✨️1st place✨️ in the 12-Hour Carol Contest)

"What garden do your stories grow?" and "Saturn's Return" in Heimat Review #6: Still Learning

"Hammerhead," "R/E/P/E/A/T/E/R," and "Radioactive" in Corporeal LIt

"Meditation on four Dimensions" and "Love Yourself" in Corporeal LIt

"Love Yourself" in the Light 'em Up Anthology from fifth wheel press

"Vascular" and "Verdigris" in The Pierian

"Roots aren't a choice (but knowing them is)" in Carmen et Error

"Proverbs 20:27" in The Turning Leaf Journal

"Proverbs 23:10" in Overtly Lit

"Skinlayered" and "Nomenclature" in Poetry As Promised Magazine #7: Mental Health

"Microsonnet for the municipality sweepers" in The Hooghly Review

"Helix Microsonnet" in Voidspace Zine: VOLTA!

"Manic/Depressive" in Libre

"Bury/Excavate" in RESURRECTION mag

"The Shimmering Field" in Contemplit Magazine

"Microsonnet of gardening terms" in Gastropoda Magazine

"Microsonnet of flower names" in Litmora Literary Magazine #3: Flower Language

"Colony Collapse" in Red Ogre Review #27

"last of all" in the engine(idling

"The Gardener" in Wasteland Review

"The Guardian" in PULP [microfiction]

"Killing Fields" in PULP

"The Lighthouse" in Divinations Magazine #3: Siren

"Sharp Memories" in The Institutionalized Review #3

one haiku in Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

"Postcard from the End of the World" in Hunter's Affects #1

"Liturgy for a Plastic God" in the Found Things Zine from Black Stone / White Stone

"Bloodgates" in Messy Misfits Club Zine #6: Filth

"BDSM (bitumen dominatrix, save me)" in the tide rises, the tide falls

"Life is a Compound Word" in the Making Room Zine from Gnashing Teeth Publishing

"Clean" in the Dead Girl Erased anthology by Gnashing Teeth Publishing

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"We Tried to Kill God Without Realizing That the Water Remembered Her Deeper Name" in Sundog Lit (✨️1st Place✨️ in the 2023 Collaboration Contest, co-authored with Stephanie Holden)

"Signifier/Signature"in the Dreamland anthology by Fifth Wheel Press (✨️nominated✨️ for Best of the Net)

"Plant Food" in Gastropoda Magazine (✨️nominated✨️ for Best of the Net)

"After We Emerge Into Light" in Voidspace Zine: Imagined Cities

"Would a fourth brain make humans less cruel?" in Feral Poetry #18: Animal

"Nomenclature," "Signifier/Signature" and "Dream Rhythm (Death Rhythm)" in Corporeal Lit

"Burning Boy" in Queerlings #8

"Microsonnet for the summer solstice" in Green Ink Poetry: Summer Solstice collection

"New De(p)ths" in Red Ogre Review #21

"The Lighthouse" in Cosmic Daffodil Journal #4: Lights Out

"Ouroboros" in Hearth & Coffin #3.1: Consume

one haiku in The Haiku Dialogue: The last frontier / Poems of dying and death, by The Haiku Foundation

"Light/World," after Micah Ulrich, in The Ekphrastic Review

"Shapeshift (score for two voices)" in Voidspace Zine #8

"Outer Sanctum" and "Melancholy" in The Field Guide Poetry Magazine

"Erasure of a sign posted at the botanical gardens" in Green Ink Poetry: Trespass collection

"Witch of the Great Lake" in Blue Bottle Journal

"The Old Man and the Road" in Skyway Journal: Road Trip, guest editor's collection

"Claimed by Fire" in Nightingale & Sparrow #19: Bonfire

"Ideation Shape" in Cutbow Quarterly #5

"microsonnet of musical terms" in Feral Poetry #16: Music

"97% of scientists agree that Icarus knew better" in The Minison Project

"fourteen dreams" in The Minison Project x Moss Puppy Magazine collaboration: Pride

"Anthropocene Clock Face (The Book of Gates)" in Soft Star Magazine #3: Wormhole

"Saturn's Return" in Moss Puppy Magazine #4: Caged

"Firewood" in The Viridian Door, Issue S: The Poet themed collection

"Electromagnetic" in Snowflake Magazine #2.1: Relationships

one haiku in Modern Haiku #54.2 (print only)

one haiku in hedgerow #138 (print only)

one haiku in Haiku in Action

one haiku in Modern Haiku #51.3 (print only)

one senryu in horror senryu journal

"The Ocean" in humana obscura #1