Danielle Cadena Deulen

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Danielle Cadena Deulen (born 1979) is an American poet and essayist. Danielle Cadena Deulen was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to Daniel Deulen and Cecilia Cadena. Much of her early life is explored in her personal essay collection, ‘’The Riots’’. She received her BA in English at the College of Santa Fe (now the Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and her MFA in poetry from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She moved to Wisconsin to receive a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the Creative Writing Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and went on to earn her doctorate in English (with a specialization in Creative Nonfiction) from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. After graduating from the University of Utah, she became an assistant professor for the creative writing doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati, but left the position in 2015 for a position at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She currently resides in Oregon with her husband J. Max Stinson, and their two sons.)

The Best Poem Of Danielle Cadena Deulen

American Curse

May dark soldiers lead you through the mountains.
May you find the criminal weeping in his hands.
May the scent of whiskey rise from your horses.
May you build your mansion in the sands.

May the beauty of your children be too great for kindness.
May the forest reappear when you close your eyes.
May your dogs grow wild as your heart goes tame.
May your bullet always meet with its aim.

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