Selected Poems
The New Yorker “Midnight in the Pain Relief Aisle of CVS Thinking About The Cloud of Unknowing”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/midnight-in-the-pain-relief-aisle-of-cvs-thinking-about-the-cloud-of-unknowing-donna-masini-poem
The Yale Review: “Real Simple”
https://yalereview.org/article/donna-masini-real-simple
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day: “My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire”
https://poets.org/poem/my-father-teaches-me-play-solitaire
Pittsburgh Review of Books: “In Cahoots”
https://pghrev.com/in-cahoots/
Lit Hub: “The Figure a Poem Makes”
https://lithub.com/the-figure-a-poem-makes-a-poem-by-donna-masini/
Metropolitan Review: “To the Woman in Window 8 at the DMV” “Clams” https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-the-woman-in-window-8-at-the-dmv
Poetry Daily: “Woman on Cell Phone Dragging an Empty Cart Through Washington Square Park”, “A Gate” http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17686
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day: “A Gate”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/gate-1
Verse Six Poems
https://verse.net/playlist/430-movie-162307981728984840
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day: “Anxieties”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/anxieties
The Writer’s Almanac, “Slowly” https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2013%252F07%252F29.html
Interviews / Podcasts
On the Margin w/ Ethelbert Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdLYtbmmDto&t=74s
On June Jordan: Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis
https://poetshouse.org/video/lessons-from-june-jordan-donna-masini-part-6-of-8/
WRBH New Orleans Radio: Writers Forum:
https://player.fm/series/wrbh-reading-radio-original-programming-podcasts/the-writers-forum-donna-masini-and-ken-foster
Aspen Public Radio: First Draft
http://www.aspenpublicradio.org/post/first-draft-donna-masini
Poetry Foundation A Change of World (Episode 4) on Audre Lorde, June Jordan, et al https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/144891/a-change-of-world-episode-4-a-place-of-permission
Brooklyn Poets: Poet of the Week http://brooklynpoets.org/poet/donna-masini/
How a Poem Happens http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/11/donna-masini.html
Turning to Fiction: Interview with Param Vir, Civitella, Italy 2011 (video) https://www.paramvir.net/philosophy/turning-to-fiction-interview-with-american-poet-donna-masini/
Essays
Poets and Writers: On Notebooks
https://www.pw.org/content/on_notebooks
Poets and Writers: On Juxtaposition
https://www.pw.org/content/on_juxtaposition
Lit Hub: In Praise of An Afternoon at the Movies
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-an-afternoon-at-the-movies/
Lit Hub: On Reckoning With a Mother’s Relentless Need to Save
https://lithub.com/on-reckoning-with-a-mothers-relentless-need-to-save-everything/
Reviews of 4:30 Movie
Brooklyn Rail: Donna Masini’s 4:30 Movie
https://brooklynrail.org/2018/09/books/430-Movieby-Donna-Masini
Poetry Foundation: Pretend Heaven
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/147407/pretend-heaven
The Lake Poetry, UK
http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/july18/
New York Journal of Books
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/430-movie-poems
Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/01/staff-picks-utopia-lapsed-christians-and-artificial-intelligence/
New York Times: New and Noteworthy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/books/review/new-noteworthy-jacob-bernstein.html
Blog post
Poetry Foundation: Reading List, November 2016
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/11/reading-list-november-2016
