May 24, 2026

Dante Fuoco

Dante Fuoco

Photograph by Cheryl Mukherji

Dante Fuoco is the author of breeding season (C&R Press, 2026). His writing appears (or will appear) in Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Poets.org, and other places. A recent fellow at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Dante is also an educator, restorative justice facilitator, performer, avid swimmer, and girl about town.

How will you ever geometry grief? Your sorrow lacks shape. Your rage needs a name. Even your pleasure: an unanswered thing.

POEMS 

Straight culture so often mistranslates love into a tired game of possession, of “finding your person,” when really love is something far more wondrous and expansive. Silly, even. I have, like, 18 crushes right now, each crush a precious little love nugget I’m unwilling to surrender—much like my friendships, which I also count as romances, each lush with intimacy that transcends sex.

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