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The Bohemians, a new novel set in New
York City in the 1920s, is scheduled for publication in 2013 by Black Heron Press and is now
available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Laurie’s poetry chapbook, Figments (& other
occurrences), is scheduled for publication in April 2013 by dancing
girl press. Laurie will read selections from these works at Couth Buzzard Books along with
Matt Briggs and Donna Miscolta at 7 pm on Thursday 6
June 2013. Laurie will also be reading at Elliott Bay Books along with Jerry Gold
at 7 pm on Friday 12 July 2013. |
Laurie Blauner
The author
of six books of poetry, two novels and a novella, 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
Wrong, Cherry Grove
Collections, 2008
Fiction
Somebody, Black Heron
Press, 2003
Infinite Kindness,
Black Heron Press, 2007
Instructions for Living,
Main Street Rag, 2011
Ordering Information
If you
order books from Secret Garden,
an independent bookstore in my neighborhood here in Seattle, you will receive
an AUTOGRAPHED copy.
Laurie’s Artwork
To see some of Laurie’s artwork, click here.
To see more of Laurie’s artwork, click here.
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
© 2004–2012 Laurie Blauner, all rights reserved. Unauthorized
reproduction by any means strictly prohibited.