Denise Duhamel is a fucking genius.

I just read her kinetic poems over at No Tell Motel and I’m blown away. I especially love the poem on the hamster wheel (all of us who’ve worked in academia know this torture) and the pinwheel sestina that can be read beginning at any stanza. The poems are beautiful and compelling in their own right, which prevents them from descending into gimmick. That sestina, man. Wow.

Denise Duhamel, I *heart* you.