Dorothea Lasky

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Dorothea Lasky is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012), The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books, 2012), Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, Poets & Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, and 6x6, among other places. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Heath Elementary School, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero.
Reviews
Lasky writes beautifully and lyrically, but in such a new and musical way it’s hard not to think of sunny hip-hop. —Shane Jones, Nylon Magazine

Laugh, cry, or shake your head, Lasky cuts to the chase. —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail

If the essence is not in what she says, Lasky’s poignancy is the result of subtle insights, both endearing and intuitive, suggested by what language leaves out. —Sophie Sills, Jacket2

She will force you to acknowledge the blackness of the blood pumping underneath your skin or the claustrophobia of loneliness, but she will not allow you to forget there is light, and that it can exist in knowing another person. —Kristen Evans, Rain Taxi

Reviews of books by Dorothea Lasky

Thunderbird

Black Life

Awe
- Dorothea Lasky’s blog, reading schedule blog,and twitter

Poems
- “The changing of the seasons is life and death seen gently ” (on Verse Daily)
- “Tornado” (in The New Yorker)
- “Emotions” (on Poets & Writers)
- “You are beautiful” (on Poetry Daily)
- “What Is This Journey I Am On” (on The Daily Beast)
- Two poems (in Make Magazine)
- “Genius” (in Gulf Coast)
- Three poems (in BOMBlog)
- Four poems (in Coconut)
- “So You Think You Can Move Fast” and “Fake Diamonds” (in Everyday Genius)
- Three poems (in Fou)
- Two poems (in H_NGM_N)
- Three poems (in Octopus Magazine)
. . . and in Spanish at Bird Poems!

Interviews
- BOMB Magazine, with Jonathan Aprea
- Bookslut, with Jason B. Jones, and again with Elizabeth Hildreth
- Phoned-In, with Luke Degnan
- MAKE Magazine, with Lauren Berlant
- The The Poetry, with Ben Fama
- Phantom Limb, with Jeffrey Allen
- Thoughts Interjected, with Nazifa Islam
- Publishers Weekly, with Craig Morgan Teicher

Articles by Dorothea Lasky
- “What Poetry Teaches Us About the Power of Persuasion” (at The Atlantic)
- “The Poetic ‘Project’ (And Other Poetry-Associated Terms I Hate)” (at The Millions)
- Dorothea Lasky's top five “desert island disks” (for Poetry Society of America)
- “Hip Hop is American Poetry” (in Con / crescent)
- “A Brief History of My Love of Stevie Nicks” (in Coldfront)
- Dorothea Lasky’s audio archive page on PennSound
- Answering the Proust Questionnaire at Weird Deer
- Reading at the Kelly Writers House at UPenn
- Reading for BOMBblog
- Reading and interview for BOMB's Phoned-In
- Reading for Poeteevee:

- Reading for CAConrad's video reading series, Jupiter 88

- Reading “I had a man” from Thunderbird:

Dorothea Lasky’s Tiny Tours
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