Ironic to post it here, I know, but it's so good I can't help it. From Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)'s book, Goldenrod: bookshop.org/a/862/978198...
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This workshop is two weeks from today! Sign up now! β¨
Living in the Senses: A 90-minute poetry workshop. Gain a deeper understanding of how sensory details function in a poem, and begin creating new work to revise and develop at home. 3pm Sunday April 21, $50, on Zoom. Led by Laura S. Marshall.
I'm teaching a poetry class online next month! You can sign up here: www.threshold-academy.com/classes/p/li...
if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone
New poems published last week in The Normal School: "Boneyard," based on my medical adventures including having coral implanted in my jaw when it was rebuilt, and "Decay (Taphonomy)," a meditation on depression and mortality and how we keep going anyway. www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2023/12...
Thank you so much!! β¨
Text of the poem "November," by Laura S. Marshall, from Two Hawks Quarterly
Text of the poem "Kegels," by Laura S. Marshall, from Two Hawks Quarterly
Text of the poem "Summer Relapse," by Laura S. Marshall, from Two Hawks Quarterly
Poems by Laura S. Marshall in Two Hawks Quarterly: "Calyx," "Kegels," "November," "Summer Relapse," "Syncope"
Five new poems out in Two Hawks Quarterly this month. Thank you to the editors for including my words in the Fall 2023 issue, and to everyone who reads them. twohawksquarterly.com
A fluffy black cat lies in his cat bed and licks his nose, unimpressed at the buffalo plaid santa hat a hand is holding over his right ear. His tabby sister is visible in a cat bed behind him.
A tabby tiger cat mews, bottom fangs visible, and ducks her head to get away from the buffalo plaid santa hat that a hand is holding over her left ear.
Tried to take some holiday photos of my cats ... These are two of the outtakes.
BEST MICROFICTION 2024 NOMINATIONS Jonathan Cardew: "the last synod of st. hilda" Laura S. Marshall: "Flat" Mikki Aronoff: "The Scatter of Flowers" Frances Gapper: "Bones, Only Bones" Alan Beard: "Snow, 1979"
The world is heavy these days, but this is a spot of light. Big thanks to the editors of trampset for publishing "Flat," and for the nomination. π«
My story: trampset.org/flat-cb8a5c5...
Nominees: trampset.org/2024-best-mi...
a severely damaged car filling up at the gas station in one photo, and in the next photo the car is seen driving down the freeway. The car is labeled βmeβ and the fuel filler is labeled βa small nap.β
A big fluffy black polydactyl cat lounges on a hardwood floor.
A big fluffy black polydactyl cat stretched across a windowsill.
A big fluffy black polydactyl cat and a small tabby tiger cat wait impatiently outside a closed door.
A big fluffy black polydactyl cat lounges on a couch covered in a grey sheet.
Looks like my guy ...
An erasure from my latest rejection ...
A floofy black cat pops his head and one paw out of a candy-corn-shaped cat hut.
A floofy black cat is sleeping with his head falling out of a candy-corn-shaped cat hut.
A sleepy floofy black cat pops his head out of a candy-corn-shaped cat hut.
We've had this candy corn cat hut for three years now. This is the first time Cub has deigned to spend any time in it. ππ§‘π€π€
tomorrow. please join as we gather, read, and fundraise π
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Thanks!! And to you as well.
I am so worn these days I can't tell whether this means a break FOR poetry or a break FROM poetry. And, honestly, both work.
My poem "Naming," from 8 Poems, issue 27: 8poems.com/issue-27/#/n...
Grief Song, by Laura S. Marshall / i don't do grief. too much salt and / polyester. no pockets. not enough / speeches to memorise in the mirror. ...
Sharing my poem "Grief Song," published in Impossible Archetype, issue 13: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/1278-2/
