The Blackstone Review

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the founder of rinky dink press, the cofounder and host of the Phoenix Poetry Series, and an editor for Four Chambers. She is the recipient of four Pushcart nominations and a fellowship from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics for her Community Poetry Gardens project. Her collections include The Book of Emergencies (Five Oaks Press, 2014), which was the recipient of the 2016 Human Relations Indie Book Award for Poetry (Personal Challenge category), and The Philosophy of Unclean Things (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She teaches courses on radical poetics, women’s literature, and creative ethnography at Arizona State University’s Downtown campus. Additionally, she is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, Arizona.