I don’t want to have a dream kitchen (except I do and the counters are soapstone because I remember them from sophomore chem and you can’t really burn them; they want oil) We were supposed to get bigger dreams: space, Telepathy, a goddamn pair of wings. Clockless time. We’re supposed to meet our idols […]
Daisy Bassen
Daisy Bassen is a poet 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 and 2021 Best of the Net Anthology and for a 2019 and 2020 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Rhode Island with her family.