Mark DuCharme’s poem “Thirst” won the Synchronized Chaos poetry contest in 2026. His recent books include Complicated Grief and Thousands Blink Outside, both from C22 Open Editions; Here, Which Is Also a Place from Unlikely Books; Scorpion Letters from Ethel; and his work of poet’s theater, We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film, from The Operating System. Since You Asked will be published by C22 in January 2027. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as bethh, BlazeVOX, Caliban Online, Chant de la Sirène, Colorado Review, Eratio, eYeland, First Intensity, Gas, Indefinite Space, Moss Trill, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Talisman, Trilobite, Typo, Unlikely Stories, Utriculi, Vanitas, Word/ for Word, The Writing Disorder, and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
