poet • educator • tender little menace
some words
have good bones
and I like to roll them
between my teeth.
selected poems
love letter from the moon
Gnashing Teeth 2026
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muted
Clockhouse 2024
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gray line
The Ekphrastic Review 2021
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Bubblegum Black
bubblegum black, Dane Lyn’s debut chapbook, is a collection about love as an energy that rips open the self and pours it out into the world. These poems explore the fear of never being loved, the joy in discovering new love, and the comfort in long lasting love. Through evocative imagery, Dane shows us the triumphs and challenges of embracing self and others as a queer polyamorous person in a broken world. They put to words the many ways in which someone can use love as a rejuvenating catalyst toward healing, and how that force has compelled them toward poetry.
currently
- reading: A History of Half Birds by Caroline Harper New
- writing: self portrait as …. chapbook
- teaching: Faultline: Poetic Forms
- recent news: less than a penny, forthcoming in The Museum of Human Hearts
workshops
Faultline is Ink & Marrow’s virtual 10-week generative poetry workshop. Last session, we played with poetic devices. This fall, we’re turning to form. Over ten Sundays, we’ll experiment with forms that repeat, compress, borrow, fracture, accumulate, erase, and reshape language. We’ll approach form as a generative tool that can create surprise, tension, possibility, and new ways into a poem.
Sundays, September 13 through November 15 9:30 AM Pacific / 12:30 PM Eastern Live on Zoom $100 full workshop $15 drop-in sessions learn about workshops →
