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Denise Duhamel (born 1961 Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is an American poet. Her earliest books take a feminist slant, beginning with Smile (1993) and Girl Soldier (1996); The Woman with Two Vaginas (1995) explores Eskimo folklore from the same perspective. Her best selling and most popular book to date, Kinky (1997), marries her bent for satire, humor, and feminism in portraying an icon of popular culture, the Barbie doll, through an extended series of bitingly satirical postures ("Beatnik Barbie," "Buddhist Barbie," etc.) Two collections that followed, The Star Spangled Banner (1998) and Queen for a Day (2001), move more broadly into American culture to display the same keen satire through the lens of absurdity. Later work is formally various with pantoums, long surreal explorations of American life, and list poems (Mille et un sentiments [2005]). The tone is bright, peppery, and energetic. Two and Two (2005) and Ka Ching (2009) exhibit the same verve and apparently inexhaustible gusto. Prolific, and frequently on the poetry circuit nation-wide, Denise Duhamel was married to the Filipino poet Nick Carbò. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and has appeared in The Best American Poetry annuals.

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