Lori Desrosiers

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Poet Bio: Lori Desrosiers' poetry books are The Philosopher's Daughter (Salmon Poetry, 2013), a chapbook, Inner Sky (Glass Lyre Press 2015) and Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (Salmon Poetry, 2016). Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She edits Naugatuck River Review, a journal of narrative poetry. She teaches Literature and Composition at Westfield State University and Holyoke Community College, and Poetry in the Interdisciplinary Studies program for the Lesley University M.F.A. graduate program.

Author Statement: I am working on poems that are possibly less narrative than my previous work, more stark and more meditative. I'm using for inspiration the concept of "missing" e.g. things that aren't there, the remnants of what was, including natural and supernatural phenomena, how time bends perception and other aspects of what may be missing, in art and nature, in memory and in science. I have already started on this project by starting a series of poems about ghosts after the Japanese Tsunami.


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