Dorothea Lasky Explained

Dorothea Lasky
Birth Place:	St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Washington University in St. Louis University of Massachusetts Amherst; Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania
Genre:	Poetry
Subject:	Poetry
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Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. 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.
• Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. With Alex Dimitrov. Flatiron Books, 2019.
• Milk Wave Books, 2018.
• Book: I Used to Be a Witch. Fjords. 2017. Winston-Salem, NC.
• Book: Rome: Poems. registration. 29 September 2014. Liveright. 978-0-87140-940-9. ^[7]
• Book: Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry. McSweeney's Books. 2013. San Francisco. Ed. with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan.
• Book: Matter: A Picturebook. Argos Books. 2012. New York.
• Rome, Liveright, 2012,
• Book: Thunderbird . 11 September 2012 . . 978-1-933517-63-6.
• Book: Black Life . registration . 1 April 2010 . . 978-1-933517-43-8.
• Book: Awe . 1 September 2007 . . 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)

External links

• Dorothea Lasky's personal page
• Dorothea Lasky's Author Page at Wave Books
• Dorothea Lasky's Bird in Snow, home of the Tiny Tour
• In Conversation: Dorothea Lasky and Adam Fitzgerald. Granta. 24 October 2014 . 129.
• Web site: An Interview with Dorothea Lasky. Bookslut. September 2010. Elizabeth Hildreth.
• Katalanché Press
• Dorothea Lasky on PennSound
• Lasky's page at Columbia University School of the Arts

Notes and References

1. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/142555740/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch
2. Web site: Dorothea Lasky. https://web.archive.org/web/20140702062706/http://poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dorothea-lasky. dead. 2 July 2014. poets.org. 8 July 2017.
3. Web site: Dorothea Lasky. poetryfoundation.org. 8 July 2017.
4. http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6285/four-poems-dorothea-lasky Four PoemsDorothea Lasky
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20060827005207/http://bostonreview.net/BR30.2/sampler.html Dorothea Lasky in Boston Review's Poet's Sampler, April/May, 2005
6. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/02/15/100215po_poem_lasky Dorothea Lasky's poem, "Tornado,"
7. Web site: Ortiz. Isabel. Feministing Readz: Dorothea Lasky's Rome. Feministing. 31 July 2014 . 29 October 2014.