Nowhere for Safety

By Romayne Rubinas Dorsey

Published January 25, 2026 at 3:41 PM EST

A forest fire igniting after lightning strikes during a summer storm.

Poet Daniel Lassell reads “Museum of Exits,” “Nowhere for Safety,” “Frame [beyond these hills a river],” “Mirror,” and “Trodden Canvas.”

Daniel is the author of two poetry books: Spit, published by Wheelbarrow Books in 2021, after winning the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Frame Inside a Frame published by Texas Review Press in 2025. Daniel grew up in Kentucky and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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