- Author: Denise Dumars Author Record # 15036
- Birthplace: Inglewood, California, USA
- Birthdate: 18 February 1956
- Language: English
- Webpages: deniseddumars.com
- Used These Alternate Names: Denise D. Dumars
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Collections
- Sheet Lightning (1988)
- Denise Dumars (1989)
- Preternaturally Yours (1992)
- Pangaea (1993)
- Speaking Bones (1996)
- Lovecraft Slept Here (2003)
- Paranormal/Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal (2012)
- Cajuns in Space (2022)
- Mars Maundering (2023)
- The Freeway Up Ramp (1981)
- Jerome (1984)
- And (1985)
- The Bride (1985)
- Cacodemon (1988)
- The Red Death (1988) with Jonathan Falk and Todd Mecklem
- Rose (1988)
- Das Ereignis [German] (1989)
- Trophy (1990) with Kevin J. Anderson [only as by Kevin J. Anderson and Denise D. Dumars]
- The Deal (1992)
- You Scared Me (1992)
- Doors (1993)
- Event (1993)
- Lenin's Lich (1993)
- Pangaea (1993)
- The Original (1993)
- The Way (1993)
- The Mirror (1993)
- The Video (1996)
- Angel Baby (1999)
- Tea (2000)
- Born to Wear Black (2000)
- One Day in Late March (2002)
- Stained Glass (2002)
- Small Towns in May (2002)
- Lovecraft Slept Here (2003)
- The God of the Morning (2003)
- The Poison Draught (2003)
- Topping Out (2003)
- Nzambe (2012)
- Scrape (2022)
- The Play's the Thing (2023)
- A Druid Prayer Translated (1978)
- And the Dead (1978)
- Prime Evil (1979)
- The Bounty Hunter (1979)
- Surely (1980)
- Paragraph Poem No.2 (1980)
- The Ark Ham (1981)
- She (1981)
- A Tiny Dolphin (1982)
- At the Foot of the Bed (1982)
- Cthulhu (1982)
- Pirating Each Glance (1982) with Marshall Watts
- The Whitleys Have the Innsmouth Look (1983)
- Toward the Elflight (1983)
- The Vanishing of the Whippoorwills (1983)
- Chthonios (1984)
- Infamous Errors (1985)
- Love Potion #10 (1985)
- If the Sky Looks Empty (1985)
- Breakfast with Norman Bates (1986)
- sugar will kill you (1986)
- The Dream (1986)
- The Necrophile (1986)
- You and I (1986)
- There's Twelve of Us if You Count Eyes (1986) with Billy Wolfenbarger
- I am myself—What the others said was true— (1987) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Leaving For Arizona, 3 AM (1987)
- Soliloquy (1987)
- Cityscape Jurassic (1987)
- I Bid You Welcome (1987)
- A Curse, a Cry for Help, a String of Nonsense (1987)
- Quetzalcoatl Meets the Nazi Doctors at Mr. Pockets (1987)
- A Last Dinosaur Speaks (1988)
- Autopsy (1988) with Marge Simon
- Still Life (1988)
- The Temple of Rats (1988)
- They Saved Mengele's Face (1988)
- Gifting (1988) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Baba Yaga (1989)
- Carnations (1989)
- Carnival Time (1989)
- February 7-8, 1986 (1989)
- Foes (1989)
- Interval (1989)
- New Year (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Orchestra (1989) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Soliloquy During a Full Moon (1989)
- Wands (1989)
- Runner (1989)
- Hands (1989)
- Opening (1989)
- A Taste of Time, Buried (1989) with Marge Simon [only as by Denise D. Dumars and Marge Simon]
- Personal (1989) with Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart [only as by Denise D. Dumars and Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart]
- The View from Tyndale's Pyre (1989) with Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart [only as by Denise D. Dumars and Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart]
- Beginning and ending with cosmologies, and otherwise addressing the mundane (1989) with Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart
- Deathfeed (1989) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Cytojustice (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Severity (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Utility (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Endpoem (1989) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- The Surgical Supply Store (1989)
- The Bamboo Cage (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- A Childhood Memory (1990)
- Basil (1990) [also as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Breakfast in Fur (1990)
- Brother Wand (1990)
- Dying on Mars (1990)
- Wisteria (for Eugenia) (1990)
- Cache (1990)
- The Ghoul (1990)
- The Gnome (1990)
- The Toasted Ted Bundy Top Ten (1990)
- Waiting (1990)
- Introduction (1990) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Lazarus Man (1991)
- The Arctic Soldier (1991)
- The Good Sleep (1991)
- Thinnest Ice (1991)
- Light (1991)
- Clackmas Phil (1991)
- There Are Times (1991)
- Flotsam (1991) with Don Webb
-
The Free Zone (1991)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Free Zone (1996)
- Beyond Pluto (1991)
- Heavy Water and a Bit of Lithium (1991)
- Somewhere (1991)
- The Muslim Spaceman (1991)
- Cat Poem for Lee Ballentine (1992)
- Desert (1992)
- I'm Stopping Up Ahead (1992)
- In an Ornamental Garden (1992)
- Incident in a New York Office (1992)
- so the collective nightmare (1992)
- The Death of Science Fiction Poetry (1992) with Keith Allen Daniels and Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart
- Xoxon (1992)
- An Affinity of Blood (1992)
- The Lost Gulag (1992)
- Moonday (1993) with Marshall Watts
- Raising the Dead (1993)
- untitled ("My floral trellis...") (1993)
- The Calling (1993)
- Aegyptophile (1993) with Nancy Ellis Taylor
- An Ice Cube for the Coffee (1993) with Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart
- Clockwatcher (1994)
- Sirocco (1994) with Robert Frazier
- Carl Sagan Was Wrong (1994)
- Kore's Christmas (1994)
- In These Hills (1994)
- Dali Drips Through Time (1994) with Nancy Ellis Taylor
- Elegy (1995) with Don Webb
- Oggun Changed Allegiances (1995)
- Projection (1995)
- In Jonah's City (1995)
- Bilateral Symmetry (1995)
- Cat Poem (1995)
- The Incorruptible (1995)
- Another Language (1996)
- Jackalope (1996)
- Language (1996)
- My Garden Altar (1996)
- Suspension (1996)
- The Finer Points of Witchcraft (1996)
- Black Tadpoles (1996)
- Chocolate (1996)
- Coming Home (1996)
- Do Tell (1996)
- East of Sepulveda (1996)
- Scarlet and Gold (1996)
- Speaking Bones (1996)
- Sweetgulp (1996)
- Swing Shift (1996)
- The Bookseller (1996)
- The Center (1996)
- The Surrealist Athletic Competition (1996)
- To Dine with Sticks (1996)
- Windows (1996)
- Women (1996)
- Something in the Night (1997)
- Nixon's Lich (1997)
- The Strange Case of Richard M. Nixon (1997)
- Curse of Bruce Boston's Wife (1997)
- Ode Written on a Baseball Diamond in a Small Town Where a Friend of Marshall's Found a Severed Head in the Bushes (1997)
- Blind Phineus (1997)
- Where the Glühwein Pours (1997)
- The Fern God (1998)
- She Hopes for Light (1998)
- Saint Valentine's on the Boulevard de la Muerte (1999) with Robert Frazier
- The Man at the Monitor (1999)
- Out There (1999)
- Nixon/Millennium (1999)
- From the Solar Launch (2000)
- Nehebka (2000)
- Across the Nevsky Prospekt (2000)
- Later, Abaddon (2000)
- Lucinda's Crown (2000)
- Already Here (2000) with Nancy Ellis Taylor
- River's End (2000)
- Come Away, Little One (2000)
- The Blair Witch Projects (2000)
- Unspoken (2000)
- Keeper (2001)
- Obsi/Diana (2001)
- In Bubastis (2001)
- The Death's Heas at the Feast (2001)
- Bleed Me (2001)
- Potion (2001)
- The Scent of Halloween (2001)
- Mending Fences (2001)
- Stone Reflection (2001)
- The Golem (2001)
- In the Mango Grove (2002)
- What Passes for Love (2002)
- Dirge with Jazz Backbeat (2002)
- Kaschei (2003)
- The Veil (2005)
- Remnants (2005)
- Diplodocus Rex (2009) with Kendall Evans
- Folding Money (2011)
- "Cat called Sugar" (2012)
- Aquarious Regards Orion (2012)
- Automatic Heart (2013)
- The Single Link (2013)
- "Tasting rooms close at" (2014)
- Steampunk Zombie (2015) with Kendall Evans and Nancy Ellis Taylor
- Brown for Brown and Green for Green (2015)
- "Cypress trees on fire" (2016)
- Londinium After Midnight (2016)
- Sutekh from the Throne (2016)
- The Wood (2016)
- True, It's Not What You Think (2017)
- Learning to Read Tea Leaves (2017)
- The World We Know (2017) with S. C. Virtes
- Insectoid Apes (2018)
- "Stiff with chill," (2018)
- "Striped gaiters, breather," (2018)
- Ix Chel and the Rabbit (2018)
- Mars Must Remember (2018)
- Broad Daylight (2018)
- NonLinear B (2019) with S. C. Virtes
- 2015 Zinfandella (2019)
- The Trickster (2019)
- The Crystalline Pony (2019)
- Eldritch (2019)
- Snails (2021)
- "Down in the river" (2021)
- Today I Make the Mourning Wreath (2021)
- Mother Midnight (2021)
- Holocene Park: AIs (2022)
- "Paler than the blush" (2022)
- Cusp of Conjure (2022)
- The Thin Red Line (2023)
- From Innsmouth (2023)
- On the Shore (2023)
- Dua Djehuti (2023)
- Bone or Root (2023)
- Wake Me Up Some Day (2023)
- The Oort Cloud of Your Smile (2024)
- "Morning sun so warm" (2024)
- Stealth SF
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, July-August 2008) (2008)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, September-October 2008) (2008)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, November-December 2008) (2008)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, January-February 2009) (2009)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, March/April, 2009) (2009)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, May-June 2009) (2009)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, July-August 2009) (2009)
- Stealth SF (Star*Line, September-October 2009) (2009)
- The Boundaries of Shared Knowledge (2010)
- Who You Callin' "Low-Brow"? (2010)
- Pardon Me, Your Slipsteam Is Showing (2011)
- Finding Speculative Poetry in Non-Genre Magazines: Cosmic, Man! (2011)
- The Crux Ansata of the Matter (2011)
- Everything Old Is New Again (2011)
- Where Do You Get Your Ideas? (2012)
- Chicks & Dudes (2012)
- Horse Sense (2012)
- An Economy of Words (2012)
- A Literature of Ideas (2013)
- I'll Make a Tattoo from My Lover's Blood (2013)
- Cursed Objects (2013)
- Unselected Poems (2014)
- Chasing Away Ghosts at Lunch Break (2014)
- Silver-Purple Legs of Kale (2014)
- Consciousness Squeezed Like Juice (2014)
- No Escape (2015)
- An Audience with the Queen (2015)
- Pedestrian Crossing (2016)
- The Horror, the Horror (2016)
- Sciencing the S*** Out of Poetry (2016)
- Elegy in a Suburban Churchyard (2017)
- All for Love (2017)
- Accepting the Worst Is Usually for the Best (2017)
- Tacos Al Pastoral (2017)
- In Transparent Petropolis (2018)
- Flying Blind (2018)
- No Reservations (2018)
- Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously? (2018)
- Where Shall I Pour My Dream? (2019)
- Lost Opportunities (2019)
- Welcome to Holland (2019)
- Print's Not Dead (2020)
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon (2020)
- What Fresh Hell (2020)
- Planned Obsolescence (2021)
- We're All in This Together (2021)
- Submission Guidelines from the Devil (2021)
- Creating Our Own Reality (2022)
- This Is Not the End of the World (2022)
- That Haiku That You Do (2022)
- The King's English (2022)
- The Gate and the Key (2023)
- Take Me to Your Leader (2023)
- Like the Wind (2023)
- The Gloves Come Off, Part I (2023)
- The Gloves Come Off, Part II (2024)
- The Way the Past Will Be (2024)
- H. P. Lovecraft on the Screen: Or, Yog-Slob and Other Disasters (1983)
- The Lurker in the VCR: More H. P. Lovecraft on the Screen (1983)
- [unknown item] (1985)
- Resurrecting the Exquisite Corpse (1986)
- Market? I Think I Broke It! (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- Workshop: What About Triple Collaborations? (1989) with Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart [only as by Denise D. Dumars and Todd Mecklem and W. Gregory Stewart]
- Letter (Science Fiction Chronicle, September 1991) (1991)
- Letter (Tekeli-li!, Winter/Spring 1992) (1992)
- Introduction (Antepenult: The Selected Poetry of W. Gregory Stewart) (1993)
- Genre Poetry Resurrects Itself: Undead Poets Alive & Well in Los Angeles (1995)
- Author's Foreword (Speaking Bones) (1996)
- The Darker Heart: An Insider's View on Gothic Poetry (1998)
- Speculative Poetry in Steinbeck Country: SF Poets Read at the World Fantasy Convention 1998 (1999)
- Poetry Items on Note (1999)
- SFPA Meet-and-Greet at Loscon (Star*Line, July-August 2002) (2002)
- Danse Poetick: The Poetry of Corrine De Winter (2007)
- In Memoriam: Ray Bradbury (2012) with Ruth Berman and Samantha Henderson and Sandra Kasturi and Deborah P. Kolodji and David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Marge Simon and David Lee Summers
- Review of What if What's Imagined Were All True by Roz Kaveney (2013)
- Review of Apocalypse by John C. Mannone (2017)
- From the Small Press (Star*Line, Winter 2022) (2022) with Amelia Gorman and Herb Kauderer
- Star*Line, March-April 1989 (1989)
- Star*Line, November-December 1990 (1990)
- untitled 1 (Star*Line, May-June 1989) (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- untitled 2 (Star*Line, May-June 1989) (1989) [only as by Denise D. Dumars]
- "I Feel So Schizophrenic," the Starship's Aft-Brain Said (2014) by Kendall Evans
- Twisted in Dream: The Collected Weird Poetry of Ann K. Schwader (2014) by Ann K. Schwader
- The Bone Forge (2015) by Max Ingram
- The Endless Machine (2015) by Max Ingram
- Dark Parchments: Midnight Curses & Verses (2016) by Michael H. Hanson
- The Fifth Gospel: Revelations of Mary Magdalene to Sister Verity (2016) by Souda Nimes
- Built to Serve (2017) by G. O. Clark
- Poetry for the Neon Apocalypse (2020) by Jake Tringali
- Denise Dumars: A Poet on Poetry (1992) by S. F. Willems
Non-Genre Titles
Poems
- Abundance (1989)