DANA JAYE CADMAN

Dana Jaye Cadman

Writer of speculative worlds.

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Coming October 15 2026

NOVA

42 Miles Press

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Praise for NOVA

Nova is, of course, the ancient news brought newly forth, in new forms, sparked and shaped and created by poet Dana Jaye Cadman, who listens. The poet is a native speaker of aliveness, in rhythmic sync with her polyvocal page, continually creating: with syndri she invents a new three-cornered poem-home. Her voice is at least in triplicate: a portal, biosphere, and archive—following its own echo into ancestral utterances of grief and joy and wonder, with cosmic clarity, fluent in Future. For these poems know cycles and patterns; these short lines have long memories. These poems remember you.

—Brenda Shaughnessy, author of Tanya and The Octopus Museum

In Nova, Dana Jaye Cadman turns grief into a form of physics. Her father haunts these poems—under a Chevy Nova with a cigarette, returning in red nightmares to flash warnings—and so does the universe he left her alone in. Laced with ghosts and the unanswerable question of God, Cadman’s speaker moves between the cosmic and the domestic: a cat going blind, a muffin, a bull in Wyoming. She is always pressing toward connection, always asking what holds us together when everything is flying apart. “Say I both forget and never knew,” she writes—and that’s exactly it: the yearning to grasp the infinite, and the relief of letting it go. Otherworldly and stubbornly human all at once, enchanting in urgency, brave in uncertainty—Nova is one of the most alive books I have read in years.

—Tracey Knapp, author of Mouth and Swerve

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NOVA

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