Event Booking
I’m available for talks, readings, and workshops. My mission is to bring a love of poetry to people of all ages. I’ve worked with first graders through to graduate students, and have offered both school and community workshops.
Sample Event Topics
- Visual Sonnets (talk)
- Iterative Writing: How to Follow Your Obsessions (3-hour or multi-day generative workshop)
- Poetry Everyday: Writing Through Difficulty (1-3 hour generative workshop)
- Poetic Translation: Using Poetry to Jump-Start More Poetry (talk or 1-3 hour generative workshop)
- The Arc of the Book: Putting a Collection Together (talk or 3-hour workshop)
- Keeping Time: In Praise of Slowness (3-hour or multi-day generative workshop)
Praise
“I have been so impressed with how empathetic, generous, and insightful Laura is. She is a master at coaxing the best out of the poets in her care—teaching them how to tap into their own creativity and to trust themselves, while also helping them to hone their craft.” —Sarah Carriger, Director of the International Writers’ Collective
“With monologues, letters, lyrics, and prose she performs a writing through to a new ground of sensation and thinking. Call it the present. The music is gorgeous and the sound is captivating. Parallel Resting Places is a wonderful book and a welcome addition to a tradition that troubles tradition.”
—Peter Gizzi, New Measure Poetry Prize Judge