While your curved blooms climb higher, the beets rest beneath layers of compost heat, egg shell peels, and decaying newspaper headlines depicting a stolen girl, a crashed war vessel, a new vaccine cure-all. Hard as […]
Lauren Crawford
Lauren Crawford holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale where she served as an associate editor for Crab Orchard Review. A native of Houston, Texas, she is the recipient of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry and the second place winner of the 2020 Louisiana State Poetry Society Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and her poetry has either appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, Passengers Journal, The Appalachian Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Midwest Quarterly, The Worcester Review, The Spectacle and elsewhere. Lauren currently teaches writing at the University of New Haven with her husband and is a reader for Palette Poetry.