NEW from Dos Madres Press
Grotesque Singers
Imagery and narrative harmonize the song of a world facing epochal change in Grotesque Singers, a new poetry collection by Rick Mullin. Voices in the choir evoke those of Herman Melville, Modest Mussorgsky, David Lynch, and others just beyond the range of name retrieval. The book orchestrates this tumult of expression such that clarity may arise in a reading sensitive to the nature of personal and communal collapse, and the lifelong journey toward redemption. —Albert Burgesser

Soutine~A Poem
Dos Madres Press, 2012

More than a meditation on art and ambition, Soutine celebrates both painting and poetry, while lamenting the limits on our lives. Mullin uses words with such color and plasticity, such concern for the joys and failures of the flesh, that his poem feels like a world remade.  —David Mason

Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle
Dos Madres Press, 2013

Darwin journeys on the Beagle, and Rick Mullin’s poetry, beautifully voicing its subject’s inner being, takes us along with him. The sonnet is a wonderful form, just right for this world-in-formation in the mind of a young naturalist. —
Roald Hoffmann

Huncke: A Poem with Paintings
Second edition published by Exot Books, 2021

An epic narrative poem where time is a many-layered thing, Huncke is a world-in-a-poem, where its titular hero/anti-hero, inspiration and name-giver to the Beat Poets appears in many dimensions: in memory, in history, in the here-and-now, in poetry, in dialogue with "angels" and "ghosts", in holographic animations, in real and fictitious characters of every stripe, all contained within the constraints of a medieval form (ottava rima to the cognoscenti) that creates the sense of a forest or a feast of cantos winding their way, stoned-soul fashion, through haunted catacombs or buzzing "red-yellow" honeycombs, an underground world that all begins at a poetry reading attended by Mullin himself. —
Siham Karami

Coelacanth
Dos Madres Press, 2013

Grounded by generous humor, graced with charming music, Rick Mullin’s latest collection, Coelacanth, mingles the modesty of a man “in need / of better shoes” with the regal bearing of the artist-as-hero, one gifted with “a formula for magic,” the last of an untamed, “legendary breed.” In a world gone “austere” and “ashen,” in an age when “mythology has reached a sorry pass,” we are comforted by Mullin’s poems, which share with the famous living-fossil fish of the book’s title the power to inspire wonder in things long since thought to have disappeared from the earth. —Ernest Hilbert

“Night” is the winner of the 2025 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest

Poems Online

“Alba” at The New Criterion

“Clue” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse

“From the Bottom Up” at E Verse Radio

“Sutra” at Autum Sky Poetry Daily

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