Ars Poetica is “the art of poetry."

Laur’s Poetica is a weekly newsletter, an eclectic miscellany.

I’m aiming to create a new post, of varying length and subject matter, every Friday.

The newsletter is free, but readers are invited to pay for a subscription. All revenue I receive from the newsletter will be sent to The Sameer Project, a mutual aid effort in Gaza working to keep Palestinians alive amidst the ongoing genocide. (I got this idea from Maura Finkelstein, whose newsletter you should also read.)

About the author: Lauren Eggert-Crowe is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Bitches of the Drought (2017), which was selected as runner-up in Sundress Publications Chapbook Competition, In The Songbird Laboratory (Dancing Girl Press 2013), The Exhibit (Hyacinth Girl Press 2013), and Rungs, collaboratively written with Margaret Bashaar (Grey Book Press 2015).

Her essays, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, Midnight Breakfast, Luna Luna, Angels Flight Literary West, and L.A. Review of Books. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Mayday, Sugar House Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, and Sixth Finch, among others. She has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Dorland Mountain Arts, and Ragdale. You can read her work at her website.