Laura E. Wright, Poet
(city&state) Boulder, CO
(e.mail address) [email protected]
(birthdate) October 29, 1969
(place of birth) Boston
(height) 5' 8"
(weight) 128
(hair color and eye color) brown / blue
(sex) female
(handedness) right
(sexual orientation) heterosexual
(ethnic background) white
(pets) wish I had a big dog
(spouse) Daron Mueller
(occupation) faux librarian
(yearly earnings) 26,000
(schools and degrees)
B.M. California State University Northridge
M.F.A. Naropa Institute
(affiliations/organizations)
School of Continuation (founding member)
Left Hand Reading Series (co-curator)
(publication credits)
various journals, including Gas,
Fell Swoop, Skanky Possum, Facture,
The End Review
online: The East Village
two chapbooks
(contemporary poets important to respondent)
Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo,
Carla Harryman, Linh Dinh
(tastes in poetry)
Subject matter for the most part annoys me if it is discernable.
Intelligence and wit are important in all writing. There is no
precise difference between poetry and prose.
(vocations)
free-lance flutist and flute teacher,
librarian (with wrong degree),
poet, translator (from French) of
poetry
(hobbies)
weight lifting, running (esp. long distances),
hockey, scotch
(religion)
converted Buddhist, very interested
in meditation and contemplative
practice in real life not interested
in the so-called spiritual
(politics) left, democratic socialist
(what respondent enjoys in the arts besides poetry)
String quartets of Bartok, Shostakovich
Tristram Shandy
Most printed matter
(why poetry, etc.)
I write poetry because I feel like it. If I don't, I get grumpy.
I read poetry because it, like most of what I consider real,
is strange. And it's not as fattening as chocolate.
(science and philosophy)
Both parents work in the sciences. Interested in biology, psychology.
If we don't understand anything about the world we live in, how
can we write?
Find most philosophy over written.
(interests in sports)
Ice hockey.
(life- in-general) My mother always told me life got better after 30.
(The first poem that comes to mind right now is) "the boys i mean are not..."
(What do you think of the current status of the world, and can you do anything about it?)
Pathetic, but it always has been. What can be done?
Small things -- recycling, being courteous to strangers and friends alike, educating ones' own children (if one has any), being a bad consumer.
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