•  Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (2007), judged by Rodney Jones (Northeastern University Press/UPNE)                              

•  Nominated for 2010 Poets’ Prize

“Wry, thoughtful, brooding, navigating seamlessly between future, present and past, between subjective and outer life, Dana Roeser’s lanky poems are neck-deep in life, and relentlessly intent on learning the truth. She has her own charming and muscular prosody; she tells lively, moving stories; but it is the determined persistence of their very human speaker which drives the poems. They keep drilling into, pushing and prying, trying to find the deepest chambers of experience, where the mystery dwells. In The Truth Room is a wonderful book by a fully-developed and original poet.”
– Tony Hoagland

“Dana Roeser’s edgy poetic voice strikes me as unlike any other.  This is urgent, vivid, unsettling poetry—one that has no time for anaesthesia or consolation.”
– Susan Wicks

“There is an impressive narrative drive in Roeser’s work, and her keenly observed, intensely given poems, sometimes leavened with humor, show a fine ear for the precise sound of language and an unerring eye for just the right detail to convince us of her truth. Hers is a strong and original voice in contemporary poetry.”
– Colette Inez

“In a time so eager to see wisdom usurped by information, it is especially wonderful to come upon poems whose every occasion shines from within: with mind, with candor and with bright consideration. Dana Roeser is one of our most truly thoughtful poets, and I rejoice in the continuing venture of her work.”
– Donald Revell