Cold rain in Pittsburgh (Bottlecap Press 2024)
Homewood Cemetery
We, the million eyelets of fences
We, the lace,
the chainlink ribbons
of dark maple’s armsWe, the worm and stitch
of telephone wire
We, the autumn,
hiss, turn
“Cold rain in Pittsburgh is a collection of poems exploring the deep connection between one’s home and one’s self. Rooted in themes of identity and family, these poems chart the author’s experience of transience, belonging, and loss. A hometown becomes a testimony, a haven, a snare, and beacon. The story of the self is threaded through this unique regional lens.”
These are strange & fretful times:
The audience will accept a hail of false signals
The audience will not accept a weak force
The audience expects a great deal of——Don’t
bother writing fires or floods or something
that springs full in the act
of destroying itself— Strange & Fretful Times(in Television)
The Oracle’s Voicemail (Alien Buddha Press 2024)
“In The Oracle’s Voicemail, Danielle McMahon crafts a world where the ordinary cracks open to reveal something more surreal. Here, the mundane is a smokescreen that barely conceals the creeping absurdities beneath. These poems pulse with a low hum, capturing moments when reality buckles under its own weight.”
& a crushed soft-pack of Belairs
like the rumpled sky lay on the coffee table
the red die tumbling tumblingi press my hand into the eye
of the TV lashed with heavy wood-grain
& fan my fingers out
to match the magician’s own— David Copperfield
The TV Guide (Alien Buddha Press 2024)
“Whether tuning into the whispered confessions of the past or the frenetic noise of the present, The TV Guide is a collection that refuses to sit still. It dares readers to sit close, adjust the rabbit ears, and confront what plays out on the screen of memory.”
irl (Stanchion Books 2026)
Coming Soon!
A chapbook on coming-of-age in the era of AOL Instant Messenger and 99cent gasoline.
I am the arrow and the pull
I am the mouth of the drowned girlI am the snaking path of cobble
I am of root, of sinew & knotI am the ravenous, the leaden
I fix my gaze to keep— For Love, I dream-walk,
insecure lovesong (Maverick Duck Press 2024)
A micro-chap for flames old and new. Free download.
growing pains
a taste like the nip of black
petrichor on the tongue
that lingers on the tip& fingers pulse
with the shudder
of catalpa leaves—bare hearts receiving
the wide open world—we quake with the ache & the itch
of fruiting limbs
rowhouse song (Ghost City Press 2025)
A micro-chap with poems about the wildness of girlhood, the skeletons in our closets, and the unthinkable. Free Download.
