Daisy Bassen is a poet, novelist and practicing physician who graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and completed her medical training at The University of Rochester and Brown. Her work has been published in Oberon, McSweeney’s, The Sow’s Ear, and [PANK] as well as multiple other journals. She was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and the winner of the So to Speak 2019 Poetry Contest, the 2019 ILDS White Mice Contest, and the 2020 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize. She was doubly nominated for the 2019 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. Her fiction is represented by Jennifer Lyons. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.
A poem by Daisey Bassen
Daumier’s feculent caricatures, A glossy nightmare behind the glass, Because the rows, the typed labels, The industrial panes are what we require To keep them from waking, speaking, Compelling us to stay away from waterlilies And Notre Dame in every painstaking blue. The clay skulls stillbirths in his hands. They ape gargoyles with mouths shaped […]
A poem by Daisy Bassen
Psalm that will never be set to music
A poem by Daisy Bassen
What happened to the rat, What hast Thou wrought From on high, that laid her so low, Curled around herself like a nautilus? Her tail pointing to a distance we cannot traverse, Her tail repellent, ringed like the center of an oak, The oak we all honor, Thy hand evident In its roots, its spreading […]
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