Dorianne Laux

BIOGRAPHY 

 Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon, is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

 

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  ITINERARY 
2010

June 8- Ruth Stone Celebration, Poet’s House
http://tribecacitizen.com/2010/01/28/upcoming-at-poets-house/
NYC

June 17-27 Pacific University
http://www.pacificu.edu/as/mfa/

July 14-15, Tinhouse
http://www.tinhouse.com/workshop/index.htm

July 25-30- Esalen
http://www.ellenbass.com/esalen_7th_annual.php

August 2-6, Truro Center for the Arts
Workshops with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar
Reading Tuessday, Aug. 3rd
http://www.castlehill.org/workshops_writing.html

September 18, poetrySPARK
w/ Joseph Millar, Tim McBride
7:30-8-:45, Isaac Hunter's Tavern on Fayetteville Street
(near the Statehouse)
http://www.sparkcon.com/sparks/poetryspark/

September 25, Flyleaf Books, Reading
w/ Joseph Millar and Alex Grant
Saturday, 7pm
http://www.flyleafbooks.com/

October 7-8-9, Dodge Poetry Festival
Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux
http://www.dodgepoetry.org/festival-2010/festival-poets/
New Jersey

November 5-7, (3-12)
22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/events/the-22nd-aldeburgh-poetry-festival-5-7-november-2010/
Suffolk, England

2011

January 14-17- NJ Getaway
http://wintergetaway.com/
New Jersey

January 22, Reading/Workshop
NCPS
Pinehurst, NC
http://www.weymouthcenter.org/
Contact: celisa@steelcob.com
919.451.0075

February 2, Matthew and Michael Dickman, NCSU
Introduction by Dorianne Laux
 
 

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POETRY

CHER

I wanted to be Cher, tall

as a glass of iced tea,

her bony shoulders draped

with a curtain of dark hair

that plunged straight down,

the cut tips brushing

her non-existent butt.

I wanted to wear a lantern

for a hat, a cabbage, a piñata

and walk in thigh high boots

with six inch heels that buttoned

up the back.  I wanted her

rouged cheek bones and her

throaty panache, her voice ...

 

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