Fall 2019 Tour Dates
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A poem emerges in the moment, and you can’t really make a poem come out. It’s going to come out exactly in the moment that it’s necessary.
Dorothea Lasky, interviewed by Natalie Eilbert for the LA Review of Books (via bostonpoetryslam)
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You were never who you were to begin with, so you can’t ever be annihilated.
Dorothea Lasky (via fuckyeahannecarson)
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I do believe it’s better to not be safe in your poems.
Dorothea Lasky, interviewed by Natalie Eilbert for the LA Review of Books (via bostonpoetryslam)
Like Glass (Dorothea Lasky songs) (2017-2019)
“The lush yet stark, intimate yet bold poetry of Dorothea Lasky is the inspiration for this set of ten songs. These texts challenge you to embrace wildness; her poems lovingly complicate binary structures of the personal and domestic.”
Ted Hearne and accompanying musicians have put together 10 songs set to Dorothea Lasky’s poetry (Wave Books) <3
Writing about Milk in The Lily
Last spring I wrote about my experiences with premature birth and how it shaped my fifth book of poems, Milk, at The Lily. You can find the article HERE.
Poetry and The Occult Spring
Next Saturday (2/16) from 2-5pm, I am teaching a Master Class at @APublicSpace Academy called “Things Seen in Flowers: Poetry and the Occult Spring.” We will be using the lens of poetry to consider all sides of the approaching flowery season. More info is HERE. I hope to see you there!
Sheila Heti and Dorothea Lasky chat about Milk, Motherhood, and the menstrual cycle as an organizing principle
Dorothea Lasky and Sheila Heti on milk and motherhood “I have this hope or feeling that Milk is about motherhood, but also about creativity—to put it simply, that type of iteration where one thing comes out of another, as a trial and then another trial and then it sticks. ”
Healing is not shameful
There is no shame in healing
There is no shame in getting better
— Dorothea Lasky, from “Snakes,” published in Granta
(Source: granta.com)