- Daniela Olszewska
Excerpts of Text Message Conversations Repurposed as Terrible Titles for Poetry Books // Daniela Ols
It's Still Yesterday Here
The Best Kind of Whale
Leonardo DiCaprio is About to Maybe Wear a Wire
Tomorrow Is An Old Day
A Good Piano
Toddler Hands
What Kind of Nothings
Nepalese Machete
Crying While Playing A Duet
Seems To Prefer
Wag-able Tails
Actually Locked
You Should Give Spaghetti-O's Another Chance
Just Like A Dreamcatcher
Basic Public Speaking
I Want To Go Camping With You, But I'm Supposed To Get My Period That Weekend
Betting on Trains
Practically The Same Thing
Good Postures
About to Explode
New Noises
The Key That Works On The Front Door
Licking A Rabbit's Face
11 Ways To Ruin A Senator
Good To Know
Siracha and Soy Sauce
There's Nothing Urgent At Your Place
Spy Walk
Drinking From The Floor
You Can Call The Police For That
The Second August
Before or After They Evacuate the People and Animals
111th Street
The Butt Showing Problem
XOXODIE?
It Was Terrible, And I Enjoyed All Of It
Artificial Wings
Social Justice-y
Pause Buttons
The Brain Behind Your Eyes
Nothing Not Worth Your While
Becky's Favorite Rapper
It Will Take Me Longer Than You
Misogynistic Facebook Thread
Near The Fountain
I Just Finished Practicing
The Dominant Cat
Green Light and Smoke
How To Emoticon
Pillow Scream
The Bronze Key
Dead Opossum Blood
Maybe Not A Lot, But At Least Twice As Much As Usual
Blinking Is Rude
Rough Mixes
He Better Come Back As a Ghost
Happy Birthday, Narc
Risk A Verse
Time and Life and Death
Phenomenons In Jazz
Actual Addresses
Skewers
Something Called "Rules"
Wasps, For Instance
Any Time After 6
Can We Go Somewhere?
Ten Plus Blankets
Don't Impede Your New Years Eve
I've Done An Expert Job at Not Having Other Obligations
Recovering Nicely
Treating You Well So Far
Currently Thinking
Pick the Spot
Full Disclosure
Trying to Figure Out What The Plan Is
Now I'm Bored
Crash Out
My Place is Messy
Just the Parameters
I'll Come To You
Stopping for Cigarettes Even If We're Already Late
In-Person
The Sense of Feeling Controlled
Fully Stocked
Emphasis Is Appreciated
The Logistics
Old Humor
Not to Be Interpreted As Something We Literally Laugh At
Disagree
30 Seconds Away
If You Want To Come By
I Found Your Cowboy Wallet
There is No Such Thing As The Corner of Kedzie and Kimball
I Tried To Tell Her
Maybe It Was Code?
Free Double Door
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Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). With Carol Guess, she is the co-author of How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Human-Ghost Hybrid Project (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming). She teaches ESL, composition, literature, and creative writing courses at several Chicago area colleges and universities. Her chapbook, Answering Machine, was released by Horse Less Press in February of 2016. She is currently working on her first novel and a collection of poems based on snapshots of other people's beds.