Road Ahead/Unsplash Reviewed by Scott Neuffer Nevada poet and essayist Dani Putney takes documentary poetics to a new level in Mix-Mix (Baobab Press, 2025). By documentary, I mean a certain relation to historical reality, which is not to say this is historical poetry. It is vivid poetry — lyrical, cynical, ironic, touching, sexy. Because the poet approaches history with all senses and emotions aflame, with heart beating beneath the inquiry, letting itself be known, the result

by Dani Putney Justin Shen “Piss yourself.” — Sign in Seattle Reader, I did. We were at Queer/Bar, aptly named for being a queer bar. My friend Max was too wasted, too messy. A French Canadian woman lost her phone down the street. We helped her while she yelled at random dudes —  she knew how to fight, I’ve been a stripper for seven years. Don’t let me mention the leather-daddy bar the three of us found ourselves in half-past 2 AM. We walked home in the rain. The stripper did

Scott Neuffer Salamat sa Intersectionality by Dani Putney, Okay Donkey Press, 2021 Reviewed by Scott Neuffer In their debut poetry collection, Dani Putney renders the American West new. Blending a philosophical, musing mind with a deep love for concrete particulars in a landscape — namely the geology and flora of Nevada —  Salamat sa Intersectionality offers an utterly beautiful and transformative revision of the strange place we both call home. Divided into three sections,

by Dani Putney Dan Starkey I want to behold him in nothing but boots and Cattleman, sunburnt skin brined, dirty-blond chest hair reflected in blue porch light. I want to lap salt off forearms, chew scar-decorated shoulders, tongue dead-celled neck. I need to inhale grass and dirt and dirt and dirt. He doesn’t need to talk —  I don’t want to hear about horses and guns and women. I want him to shove me against ranch-house stucco, rub hardness into my soft city mind. Callused kn