Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is the recipient of a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry, Eleven Eleven, Blackbird and Chariton Review. Her first collection, A Lesson in Smallness, was published in May 2015.
Winter 2016
Syringe Training,
Home Visit
In the quiet voice I enforce all nights
by this hour
my husband asks the nurse in
and would she like
Fall 2012
Hurtling Along: on Ennui Prophet by Christopher Kennedy
America has been bedazzled to death. According to the knee-buckling prose poems in Ennui Prophet, Christopher Kennedy’s fourth collection, grocery stores, chain bookstores, all-terrain vehicles and other symbols of Western excess have embellished the landscape and also our selfhood in the most boring, indulgent ways. Our connections with each other, the world, and ourselves are in danger.
Spring 2011
A Review of Charles Simic’s Master of Disguises
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: New York, NY, 2010. 96 pages. $22.00. Just as Dickinson warns that the truth must be told “slant” so as to not “dazzle” us “blind,” in his […]