Dorothea Lasky?is the author of six books of poetry and prose:?Animal?(Wave Books, 2019), as well as?ROME?(W.W. Norton/Liveright) and?Milk,?Thunderbird,?Black Life, and?AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including?Snakes?(Tungsten Press) and?Poetry is Not a Project?(Ugly Duckling Presse). Her poems have appeared in?The Paris Review,?The New Yorker,?American Poetry Review, and?Boston Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of?Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry?(McSweeney's) and is a Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been educated at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Washington University.
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Since 2018, Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky has invited a dazzling array of poets to the Lenfest Center for the Arts, including Ken Chen, CAConrad, Ana?s Duplan, Matthea Harvey, Douglas Kearney, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Fred Moten, Cecilia Pavón, Celina Su, Cecilia Vicu?a, and Abigail Chabitnoy.
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Born Under the Sign of the Wild I, Dorothea Lasky Releases Two Books
Although known primarily for her poetry, Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will release two new prose works in October.
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