Rachel Dacus

One reviewer called Rachel Dacus’ recent poetry collection, Femme au chapeau (David Robert Books, 2005) “thrilling, one-of-a-kind poetry.” It follows her first book, Earth Lessons (Bellowing Ark Press, 1998) and two poetry CDs, A God You Can Dance and Singing in the Pandaleshwar Caves. Her poems, essays, book reviews and stories have appeared in Bellingham Review, Boulevard, Cranky, Image, The Pedestal, Prairie Schooner, Rattapallax, Swink, and the anthologies Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English and Italy: A Love Story. She serves as fundraising consultant to a wide range of nonprofit hospitals and charitable organizations and is a staff member for The Alsop Review (alsopreview.com).

Rachel Dacus’ “Fistulas” and “Wild Ranunculas” appear in Caketrain Issue 04.

Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book we publish to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with such precision and power that it feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix:


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ISSN 1547-6839.

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