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Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh collection of poems, Door, will be published in spring 2023. A recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, she teaches at Bard College.
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Why Poetry Now
By Ann LauterbachA friend recently handed me a bumper sticker that reads WHO NEEDS POETRY. A question in the form of a statement.
Dis
By Ann LauterbachFootsteps with a hiss attached, dis dis dis, dragging a mutant shadow from which the object has gone.
Ann Lauterbach
A recent advertising flyer from the clothes designer Eileen Fisher has the picture of a woman leaping, accompanied by the line Power Moves You. Where will it take you?
Four
By Ann LauterbachAnn Lauterbach is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2009. She is also the author of the prose books, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, and The Given & The Chosen.
Jury
By Ann LauterbachAnn Lauterbach's most recent book is Under the Sign. She teaches at Bard College.
JA Reprise
By Ann LauterbachANN LAUTERBACH is a poet and essayist. Her next book is due from Penguin in 2018. She teaches at Bard College.
What Is a Day?
By Ann LauterbachTo narrate oneself into a catastrophe with unknowable global consequences seems trivial, or vain, or both.
Sleepy Little Essay on Good and Evil
By Ann LauterbachTry this. Better? Somewhat. It will do for the time being. Seem to make some mistakes.
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By Ann LauterbachAnn Lauterbach’s most recent book is Spell from Penguin (2018).
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