Laura Donnelly’s first book of poetry, Watershed, won the Cider Press Review Editors Prize, and her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Passages North, and on Poets.org. Originally from Michigan, she is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Oswego.
Summer 2016
Recipes for a Mortal World: On Jane Hirshfield’s The Beauty
In The Beauty, Jane Hirshfield ushers in moments of revelation through poems at once earthly and philosophical, exploring everything from cellophane to the proteins that thread the speaker’s spine.