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OF THE FLORIDS begins with an inability to speak of the natural world in the urban fortress of Singapore . . .

Diode is pleased to share that Dr. Joey S. Kim and Conor Bracken are two of five finalists for the Ohioana Book Award in the poetry category

Shanta Lee Gander's GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA has been named a 2021 Vermont Book Award finalist! Congratulations, Shanta!

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS ME won a 2022 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for outstanding cover artwork!

"If poetry be that sly accomplice to taxonomy, its fall guy, its wingman, its muse, then what a bird of a book Of the Florids is—"

Contour is a lie—a sensitive line. It grieves the separation between the body and the land. It asks the enduring question of illusive space:

"Grief, well-trod territory though it can be, is made wholly original here with Johnson’s narrative poems, and her fiction writer’s eye for

We're thrilled to announce the cover for Melissa C. Johnson's chapbook Cancer Voodoo, forthcoming this March!

We're pleased to reveal the cover for Stephanie Niu's debut chapbook poetry collection, She Has Dreamt Again of Water, forthcoming March '22

"I worked by instinct. I found that if I thought too much about what I was trying to do, the poems would not come."