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Hear Laurie read her
works on Rattle Magazine's web site
and also on Knockout Magazine's web
site. Wrong, Laurie's 6th book of Poetry,
is forthcoming Fall 2008 from WordTech Press. Meet Laurie at the Get Lit! festival in
Spokane, Washington along with other Black
Heron Press authors on Saturday, 19 April 2008 at the Spokane
Club. For more information (including
the time and location of the reading), visit the Get Let! Web site. For more information,
send your snail-mail address to Laurie at |
Laurie Blauner
The author of five books
of poetry and two novels, Laurie Blauner received an MFA from The University of
Montana. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in various publications,
including The New Republic, The Nation, The Georgia Review,
The Seattle Review, The New Orleans Review, Poetry, and American
Poetry Review. She has received an NEA grant, King County Arts Commission,
Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Trust, and Centrum grants and awards. Laurie
Blauner lives in Seattle, Washington.
Poetry
Other Lives, Owl Creek Press, 1984
Self-Portrait with and Unwilling Landscape, Owl Creek Press, 1989
Children of Gravity, Owl Creek Press, 1995
Facing the Facts,
Orchises Press, 2002
All This Could Be Yours,
Cherry Grove Collections, 2006
Fiction
Somebody, Black Heron Press, 2003
Infinite Kindness, Black Heron Press, 2007
To order books or for
other inquiries, please contact the following publishers:
Owl Creek Press
2693 Camano Drive SW
Camano Island, Washington 98292
Orchises Press
PO Box 20602
Alexandria, Virginia 22320-1602
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rlathbur/
Black Heron Press
PO Box 95676
Seattle, Washington 98145
http://blackheron.mav.net/
Sample poetry:
What your Body Holds Against You*
could be love in the right proportions. Don't confuse
form and content where a good sense of humor becomes
curves that make rooms loosen around her.
Look for a woman that listens to music
drifting over a lake, hovering like flies, or someone who will
watch the landscape emptied of azaleas under a setting sun.
By forty there is a sideshow of vanities:
the dragon breath you wake to, bones tossed
against your skin like waves, or the flesh that grows
where a waitress tucks her loose change. We measure
time with our lives, counting out the coins
year by year. We all become detectives of broken
hearts in off-season hotels where love and its accoutrements
wait by the roulette wheel for one chance at the big time.
*from Children of Gravity, Owl Creek Press, 1995
Copyright © 2004, 2005
Laurie Blauner, all rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction by any means
strictly prohibited.