The Bird in Hand Café and Bookstore is delighted to welcome Darah Schillinger for a reading and discussion about her poetry collection, when the daffodils die. Let us know you plan on attending the reading here.

From wintery landscapes to cloudy skies and yellow summer days, Darah wields her poetry within when the daffodils die to bring her readers on a journey through their (and her) relationship with themselves and with those they choose to surround themselves with. Young love, a mother’s love, self-love, spiritual love, all-encompassing love. Her willingness to write about the many facets of love and the way she challenges both herself and the long-standing truths within society about women and their place within the world makes this collection of poetry one of courage, defiance, and an appreciation for the overlooked things in life.

Darah previously interned for the literary magazine EcoTheo Review in summer 2020 and has had poetry published in her school literary journal, AVATAR, on the Spillwords Press website, in issue one of the Solstice Literary Magazine, and in the Maryland Bard’s Poetry Review 2022. Darah currently lives in Perry Hall, Maryland, with her parents, and in her free time, she likes to write poetry and paint. She plans to pursue an MS in professional writing and hopes to establish a career in publishing after its completion.

You can learn more about Darah in an interview with Vignette Managing Editor Siobhan McKenna here. Find Darah on Facebook and Instagram.

You can purchase the chapbook from the Yellow Arrow Publishing bookstore.