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Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Arlene DeMaris lives in Avon, Connecticut with her husband, Michael. She is the author of Instructions for Use, a debut poetry collection. She has also published poems in Bellevue Literary Review, Maine Review, Radar Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly and other literary publications. She was the recipient of a 2023 Nutmeg Poetry Award and the 2024 Connecticut Poetry Award, both from the Connecticut Poetry Society. Arlene holds an MFA in Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars of Bennington College, Vermont.

Instructions for Use is an unflinching, elegantly crafted debut collection of intensely smart, deeply observant poems, by turns tender and brutal: a meditation on what it means to carry a body with its physical and psychic scars through time. With beauty, humor, and an acrid toughness tonally bringing to mind Louise Glück as well as Henri Cole, Arlene DeMaris writes of perseverance in the face of loss, inheritance and loneliness, childlessness and grief, mortality and the wonderful, ferocious awe of being alive.

 
Michael Dumanis
Director, Poetry at Bennington
Editor, Bennington Review
Literature and MFA in Writing Faculty
Bennington College
 

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