Saturday, September 28, 2019

September News


Hello, friends, and happy fall! After two years in Florida, I am thrilled to be back in a place with seasons-- especially autumn. I missed it most of all.

September has been a wonderful month. The news I am most excited to share is, I was selected to read with five other poets for the Woman Made Gallery's Reading Series in Chicago! Of course, I've read at many venues in the Kansas City area (my hometown), and in the Destin area, where I lived in Florida. This is the first time I actually traveled to do a reading. I was heckin' nervous, but I think the reading went well. I made some new friends, and I even sold some books!


There were readers from Texas and from the west coast, so I was not the only non-Chicago native in the lineup. I was also not the only person who was new to reading outside their city of residence, so that helped a lot!


The event was recorded, so I hope to have a link to a video to share soon. The gallery will also be displaying poems that the poets read, so if you're in the Chicago area, you can stop in and see my work in the gallery. I also highly recommend checking out the art-- as the name of the gallery implies, they display work by women and women-identifying artists. I had a chance to stroll through it before the reading and was blown away by the quality and variety of pieces.

I would like to extend my deepest thanks to gallery Nina Corwin, gallery curator, and the rest of the lovely staff and volunteers at the Woman Made Gallery. I am so grateful for the opportunity and the hospitality!

On the publication front, I am also pleased to share that I had some work accepted for the inaugural edition of Doubleback Review. I received this nice acceptance from their poetry editor, Anna Black:

Dear Lauren,

I'm excited to offer space to both "West Side Girl" and "Minotaur's Daughter" in our first issue of the Doubleback Review. I'm especially pleased to accept these poems. They do incredible work and the language is at once lively and at times surprising, as well as spot-on. I so loved reading your work and would welcome seeing it again at any time.

Thank you, Anna! I can't wait to see the issue when it goes live. Doubleback Review has a cool mission-- to publish work that previously appeared in now-defunct literary magazines. I absolutely love the idea of giving old work new life!

And finally, I would love to share that Allison Blevins, editor-in-chief at Harbor Review, has written a lovely review on my latest collection, Requiem for a Robot Dog, which she calls, "an epic of the everyday."

Read the full review here.


Requiem for a Robot Dog was published by Cajun Mutt Press. Paperback copies are available on Amazon.

Next month is October, my absolute favorite time of year. I plan on posting a horror story for your enjoyment. Thank you, as always, for reading! 





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