James Ducat
Pushcart-nominated poet. Chapbook "A Field of Nopes" out now. Full-length book "Debris Orbits" was semi-finalist for Ashland Poetry Press Richard Snyder Prize.
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"Flirt" has been nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize by Poetose!
"Flirt" has been nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize by Poetose!
Poetose nominates for Best of the Net, the Pushcart, and other prizes.
Debris Orbits is semi-finalist for 2025 Richard Snyder Prize - Ashland Poetry Press
Debris Orbits is semi-finalist for 2025 Richard Snyder Prize - Ashland Poetry Press
The Ashland Poetry Press is thrilled to announce that judge Kim Addonizio has selected K.T. Landon’s Abide as the winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize. The Ashland Poetry Press staff has also selected Michael Lawson’s Proof as Editor’ Choice. We received nearly 500 entries this year, and every manuscript was read with care,
Selected Poetry Publications
Unrecorded | Cathexis Northwest Press
Unrecorded | Cathexis Northwest Press
Cathexis Northwest Press January - February 2026 Poetry Anthology Cathexis Northwest Press: Publishing Poetry Since 2018
Flirt | Poetose
Flirt | Poetose
"Flirt" by James Ducat
Two Poems | Watershed Review
Two Poems | Watershed Review
How to Let Go | Issue XIV – The Closed Eye Open
How to Let Go | Issue XIV – The Closed Eye Open
Break Up | The Passionfruit Review
Break Up | The Passionfruit Review
Across the event horizon of a black hole, the relative distance between parts increases, accelerates until hypergravity extrudes the component particles. Spaghettifies them.
Two Poems | Pictura Journal
Two Poems | Pictura Journal
Two Poems by James Ducat: "Shadowed Sapling" and "I Want to Say the Corners"
Held | Maya’s Micros-The Closed Eye Open
Held | Maya’s Micros-The Closed Eye Open
As Blood into Carpet | Red Ogre
As Blood into Carpet | Red Ogre
Poetry by James Ducat
Questions for My Body | The Inflectionist Review
Questions for My Body | The Inflectionist Review
You Can Only Be One Place at a Time | The Penn Review
You Can Only Be One Place at a Time | The Penn Review
Coma | Gordon Square Review
Coma | Gordon Square Review
Poetry by James Ducat
Plumb Edges | antiphony issue si
Plumb Edges | antiphony issue si
Boundaries | Barren Magazine
Boundaries | Barren Magazine
Barren Magazine - Boundaries -
What the Water Has Given | panoply zine
What the Water Has Given | panoply zine
after Frida Kahlo I caught a bluefish in the brackish Kennebunk, rode belly-in to the shore on the flat churn at Newport, dropped headfirst off a wave to dry sand at Southampton, glided end-to-end …
“Bones” - The Bellingham Review
“Bones” - The Bellingham Review
My skeleton hides, teases, makes burlesque adjustments: peek-a-boo rib cage, scapula.
Mirage | Matter Press Compressed
Mirage | Matter Press Compressed
"Method for an Uncertainty" - Clockhouse 8
"Method for an Uncertainty" - Clockhouse 8
"You Must Stop Telling the Story of When You Were Eight" - Porridge
"You Must Stop Telling the Story of When You Were Eight" - Porridge
“Harrow” and “The Argument” -Specter
“Harrow” and “The Argument” -Specter
A Field of Nopes - chapbook
Trailer - "A Field of Nopes"
Trailer - "A Field of Nopes"
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Interview with Carve Magazine - James Ducat
Interview with Carve Magazine - James Ducat
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