DMQ Review rings in the new year with DMQ Virtual Salon’s January 2026 featured poets Tshaka Campbell, Aileen Cassinetto, and Dean Rader, reading from their new books!
Aileen Cassinetto
An Immigrant’s Guide to Navigating Borders and Bodies of Water
Paloma Press, 2025
$16
Playlist:
An Immigrant’s Guide to Navigating Borders & Bodies of Water is a study of movement, migration, and the shifting landscapes of identity. Rooted in common rites and daily ritual, these poems trace what we carry and what we leave behind in the ongoing work of negotiating borders within ourselves and across the world.
Poems read:
“Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time”
“To Want the Wide American Earth”
“Great Expectations at Race & Auzerais”
Soundtrack:
Claude Debussy, “Clair de Lune” (1905)
Saunder Choi, “Wide American Earth” (2023)
Simon & Garfunkel, “Cecilia” (1970)
