Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky | |
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 Dorothea Lasky in 2014 | |
| Born | 1978 (age 42–43) St. Louis, Missouri |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Washington University; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Subject | Poetry |
| Website | |
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Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.
Background and education[]
She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1996.[1] She earned a BA in classics and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.[2] She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers,[3] and her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Creativity and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her work has appeared in The Paris Review,[4] Boston Review,[5] and the New Yorker.[6]
Bibliography[]
- Full-length collections
- Animal. Wave Books, 2019. ISBN 9781940696911
- Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. With Alex Dimitrov. Flatiron Books, 2019. ISBN 9781250313300
- Milk Wave Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1940696645
- I Used to Be a Witch. Winston-Salem, NC: Fjords. 2017.
- Rome: Poems. Liveright. 29 September 2014. ISBN 978-0-87140-940-9.[7]
- Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books. 2013. Ed. with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan.
- Matter: A Picturebook. New York: Argos Books. 2012.
- Rome, Liveright, 2012, ISBN 9780871409393
- Thunderbird. Wave Books. 11 September 2012. ISBN 978-1-933517-63-6.
- Black Life. Wave Books. 1 April 2010. ISBN 978-1-933517-43-8.
- Awe. Wave Books. 1 September 2007. ISBN 978-1-933517-24-7.
- Chapbooks & pamphlets
- Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2018)
- Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
- Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008)
- The Hatmaker's Wife (2006)
- Art (H NGM N Press, 2005)
- Alphabets & Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004)
References[]
- ^ St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 08 April 1996, p. 12.
- ^ "Dorothea Lasky". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ "Dorothea Lasky". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ Four PoemsDorothea LaskyArchived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dorothea Lasky in Boston Review's Poet's Sampler, April/May, 2005
- ^ Dorothea Lasky's poem, "Tornado," in The New Yorker Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ortiz, Isabel. "Feministing Readz: Dorothea Lasky's Rome". Feministing. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
External links[]
- Dorothea Lasky's personal page
- Dorothea Lasky's Author Page at Wave Books[permanent dead link]
- Dorothea Lasky's Bird in Snow, home of the Tiny Tour
- "In Conversation: Dorothea Lasky and Adam Fitzgerald". Granta (129).
- Elizabeth Hildreth (September 2010). "An Interview with Dorothea Lasky". Bookslut.
- Katalanché Press
- Dorothea Lasky on PennSound
- Lasky's page at Columbia University School of the Arts
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