Dorothea Lasky

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Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Background and education

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1996.[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/142555740/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch], 08 April 1996, p. 12. She earned a BA in classics and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.{{cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dorothea-lasky|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702062706/http://poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dorothea-lasky|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2014|work=poets.org|title=Dorothea Lasky|access-date=8 July 2017}}

She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers,{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dorothea-lasky|work=poetryfoundation.org|title=Dorothea Lasky|access-date=8 July 2017}} and her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Creativity and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has appeared in The Paris Review,[http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6285/four-poems-dorothea-lasky Four PoemsDorothea Lasky]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016154328/http://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/6285/four-poems-dorothea-lasky |date=October 16, 2014 }} Boston Review,[https://web.archive.org/web/20060827005207/http://bostonreview.net/BR30.2/sampler.html Dorothea Lasky in Boston Review's Poet's Sampler, April/May, 2005] and The New Yorker.[http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/02/15/100215po_poem_lasky Dorothea Lasky's poem, "Tornado,"] in The New Yorker {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211144913/http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/02/15/100215po_poem_lasky |date=2010-02-11 }}

Bibliography

;Full-length collections

Animal. Wave Books, 2019. {{ISBN|9781940696911}}
Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. With Alex Dimitrov. Flatiron Books, 2019. {{ISBN|9781250313300}}
[https://www.amazon.com/Milk-Dorothea-Lasky/dp/194069664X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1520106385&sr=8-2&keywords=Dorothea+Lasky Milk] Wave Books, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1940696645}}
{{Cite book|title=I Used to Be a Witch|publisher=Fjords|year=2017|location=Winston-Salem, NC}}
{{cite book|title=Rome: Poems|url=https://archive.org/details/romepoems0000lask|url-access=registration|date=29 September 2014|publisher=Liveright|isbn=978-0-87140-940-9}}{{cite web|last1=Ortiz|first1=Isabel|title=Feministing Readz: Dorothea Lasky's Rome|url=http://feministing.com/2014/07/31/feministing-readz-dorothea-laskys-rome/|website=Feministing|date=31 July 2014 |access-date=29 October 2014}}
{{Cite book|title=Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry|publisher=McSweeney's Books|year=2013|location=San Francisco}} Ed. with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan.
{{Cite book|title=Matter: A Picturebook|publisher=Argos Books|year=2012|location=New York}}
[http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Rome Rome], Liveright, 2012, {{ISBN|9780871409393}}
{{cite book |title=Thunderbird |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2VgAwAAQBAJ |date=11 September 2012 |publisher=Wave Books |isbn=978-1-933517-63-6}}
{{cite book |title=Black Life |url=https://archive.org/details/blackle00lask |url-access=registration |date=1 April 2010 |publisher=Wave Books |isbn=978-1-933517-43-8}}
{{cite book |title=Awe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WFgAwAAQBAJ |date=1 September 2007 |publisher=Wave Books |isbn=978-1-933517-24-7}}

;Chapbooks & pamphlets

Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2018)
Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008)
The Hatmaker's Wife (2006)
Art (H NGM N Press, 2005)
Alphabets & Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004)

References

External links

[http://www.dorothealasky.com/ Dorothea Lasky's personal page]
[http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/54 Dorothea Lasky's Author Page at Wave Books]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
[http://www.birdinsnow.com/ Dorothea Lasky's Bird in Snow, home of the Tiny Tour]
{{cite journal|url=http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/In-Conversation-Dorothea-Lasky-and-Adam-Fitzgerald|title=In Conversation: Dorothea Lasky and Adam Fitzgerald|journal=Granta|date=24 October 2014 |issue=129}}
{{cite web|url=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_09_016565.php|title=An Interview with Dorothea Lasky|publisher=Bookslut|date=September 2010|author=Elizabeth Hildreth}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070708040004/http://katalanchepress.blogspot.com/ Katalanché Press]
[http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lasky.php Dorothea Lasky on PennSound]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170118053450/http://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty/dorothea-lasky Lasky's page at Columbia University School of the Arts]

Category:1978 births

Category:Living people

Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni

Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni

Category:Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni

Category:University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education alumni

Category:American women poets

Category:Columbia University faculty

Category:Ladue Horton Watkins High School alumni

Category:21st-century American poets

Category:21st-century American women writers