Poet Denise Duhamel’s honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She’s the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Kinky, Ka-Ching!, and Blowout, which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award. Duhamel names as some of her influences Lucille Ball, Roseanne Barr, Andrea Dworkin, Alyson Palmer, Amy Ziff and Elizabeth Ziff (who make up the singing group Betty), and the 70s television heroine Mary Hartman. Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New (Sibling Rivalry Press) is the quirky love child of Duhamel and poet Maureen Seaton, which exploits and explores feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, and Olive Oyl.Duhamel has published numerous collections of poetry, including Kinky (1997), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (2001), Ka-Ching! (2009), and Blowout (2013), which was a finalist for a National Books Critics Circle Award. She co-edited, with Nick Carbó, Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon (2002), and, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (2007). Duhamel has also collaborated with Seaton on several poetry collections, including Exquisite Politics (1997), Oyl (2000), and Little Novels (2002).Duhamel’s honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry, and has also been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Bill Moyers’s PBS poetry special Fooling with Words.
