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Dustin King Poetry

Most Recent Book

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Last Echo is self-help for those who refuse it, a bear hug for anyone who would charge through its embrace. Each offering invites us to tear down the soul we never asked for, construct the one we never knew we craved, and revel in the reckoning.

Poems Free to Read 

"Foibles"

Published in ballast issue 3.2

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"What Frightens, Comforts Me; Last Night, This Morning" &

"Bird Lesson"

Published in Sublunary Review

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"Bellicose, Varicose Brains" & "Woe is the Monument on the Night of the Wobegone: Sonnets, Somewhat"

Published in DUMBO Press

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"No Home at Last" & "Gutterpunk Zorro"

Published in Sublunary Review

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"Sunflower Poem"

Published in Stone Poetry Quarterly

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"The Thought to End All Thoughts"

Published in Issue 9 of Marrow Magazine.

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"My Middle"

Published in Feral Poetry

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"Litany of Lethargy and Glee"

Published in Horror Sleaze Trash

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"Broken Photo of the Musician"

Published in Feral Poetry

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"Progress, Mexico"

Published in South Broadway Press

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"Dead Wax"

Published in Feral Poetry

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"Forgetting the Hospital"

Published in Scapegoat Review

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"Hymn for the Powers That Be"

Published in South Broadway Press

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"The Unlucky"

Published in Horror Sleazy Trash

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"Scam"

Published in Horror Sleazy Trash

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"The Great Primrose Superbloom of 1896"

Published in Drunk Monkeys Magazine

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"Dirty Dream" & "Egg-White"

Published in Delicate Friend

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"Deborah Does Dallas"

Published in Horror Sleazy Trash

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Issues and Magazines Available for Purchase

Potomac Review at Montgomery College

"This Afternoon's Sacrament"

Issue #72

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Blood & Bourbon

"Moan, Groan, and Pulse: The Virginia Beach Stories"

"Lament of the Current"

"Our Consciousnesses Meld for a Week in Zihuatanejo, Mexico"

Issue 15: Ocean

 

"The Time in the Bar That Family Kept Staring at Us as We Joked that the Photo You Took of Rotting Bananas in a Hot Parking Lot Resembled an Ansel Adams Photograph"

"What May We Say Today on the Nature of Suffering?"

"Ghost in Terminal B"

Issue 10: Catastrophe

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"Broken Photo #16 or Camping Trip"

"Broken Photo #15 or River Vs. Toilet"

"Broken Photo #18 or The Rink"

Issue 7: Begin Again

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Prism Review at the University of La Verne

"Sonetos Con Grietas: Dispatch from Mexico City"

Issue #27

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Blue Unicorn

"2 Haiku"

Blue Unicorn Fall 2023 - Volume 47

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"Paroxysms on a Failed Morning Run in the Rain Hungover"

"After Witnessing a Tree 800 to 1200 Years Old on a Paddle Up Dragon Run"

"Terraformer's Blues"

Issue XI - May 2025

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Peach Fuzz

"Our Consciousnesses Meld for a Week in Zihuatanejo, Mexico"

Issue 32

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"Ni Dios Se Escuchaba"

Issue 30

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The Poem I Was Worried You Wouldn't Like That I Wanted to Call Aggressive Animals and Other Things We Resemble in the Bedroom Devolves into a Travel Journal"

Issue 29

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