Listen to Rosemarie Dombrowski read “Epistolary for the New Year” from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).
Rosemarie Dombrowski (RD) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding editor of rinky dink press, and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates self-care and healing through poetry. RD is the recipient of a Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and was named a finalist for both the Whitman Bicentennial Award (2019) and the Joy Harjo Poetry Contest (2023). She’s published three collections of poetry and was the winner of the 2017 Split Rock Review chapbook competition. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies as well as Poetry Daily, poets.org, the Emily Dickinson Museum, NPR, the TEDx stage, and elsewhere.