Rose DeMaris

A Young Woman's Musings, Poetry Fleurs de Réve, Isis Copia, May Ziadeh, Rose DeMaris The following translations are from May’s first book, Fleurs de Réve, a collection of poems she wrote in French during her adolescence and early twenties. She published it in 1911 under the pen name Isis Copia. –Rose DeMaris. Translated by Rose DeMaris Sweet dews in these tender stems flood my eyes.

Rose DeMaris’s poetry appears in Image, New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She received Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry in 2022 and the 2024 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and she was a Best New Poets nominee in 2023. She holds advanced degrees in English and Native American Studies as well as an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow.

Find and share the perfect poems. for J. Afloat out on the starlit water where ordinary life’s a dream as to two figures in a frame, I touch the moon, and watch it shatter. But when I touch you, you remain, my body weightless in your arms while quietly your hand conforms to the hard griefs along my spine.