Dorothea Lasky

Oct 14, 2024 | newyorker.com | Dorothea Lasky

Mother I went in the rose garden In the middle of the night To find the things I lost there Mother I searched for you For seven nights And could not find you They left your perfume everywhere A kind of toying aspect And scratched your picture With their talons I replaced it Despite their anger And still got up in the morning To feed the babies Their first meal Mother I wore a lilac dress And stepped through the thistle The alligators had already overtaken The endless landscape Your body was...

Aug 7, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Alex Dimitrov |Dorothea Lasky

Alternately narrated with just the right amount of earnestness and snark by the two authors, this audiobook eschews the heavy-handedness of some astrologers in favor of a playful approach. Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky are two poets who created a Twitter account that provides followers with astrological forecasts. The authors' voices are quite different from each other, employing their own humorous nuances, but both are engaging and fun to listen to.

Dec 13, 2023 | yalereview.org | Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky A dress that is high in the neck Is best to see yourself in I have come here from far away To see what time could do to me Everywhere there is the woman Slouched over her drink In the season of despair As it’s always nighttime here Or should I say, there’s always a becoming I lay my life in front of you without cause And you take stock of it Deem it not worthy I was always the right person To medicate danger I take out my little metal purse So many vials in exactitude So many...

Dec 5, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Dorothea Lasky

Alice Notley lives in a studio apartment up a single flight of stairs, on the Right Bank in Paris. Her front door is labeled with her name, in looped handwriting on Scotch tape. The small kitchen, which I saw used only for the making of espresso, leads into Notley’s bedroom, the bed neatly made with gray sheets. Past that is the workspace jammed with countless books, many given to her or written by friends—among them Jim Carroll, Eileen Myles, Leslie Scalapino, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman.

Oct 13, 2023 | lithub.com | Dorothea Lasky

My new poetry book, The Shining, attempts to tackle many feelings characteristic of our current moment. The fear and isolation that we’ve all undoubtedly felt as we’ve battled the coronavirus pandemic over the past few years is merely one. I remember early moments of our 2020 lockdown feeling as if I were trapped in The Shining movie, and that my old life of going outside was a distant memory.