A Partial List of Here and Far Lauren Camp Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one. —Federico García Lorca Acres of weeds to our view and every minute needs reminding that we haven’t yet been erased. A birdcage floats over a scumbled sky. Just another day...

Listening to Manage the Year (Thelonious Monk) — Poetry by Lauren Camp He begins with only a shadow of the toil to tell He begins with not even and underfoot makes a slip and wandering Begins by lifting a bruise Begins with the airsound of an uncommon question or a thorn...

ISSUE SIX ARCHIVE ABOUT SUBMIT NEWS MUCH BY LAUREN CAMP Photo credit Bob Godwin Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press). Her poems have appeared in Witness, Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal and The Los Angeles Review. Honors include the Dorset Prize and...

JUNE 23, 2021DANIEL NESTER “Still Life with Dirty Windows” by Lauren Camp In fact no one knew. Neither the after nor struggle. In fact, mouthfuls of suns worth of distance seemed what we’d remember of absence. All these underground languages, a bitter cup of flinty wind. What people said scrubbed...

Lauren Camp Emptiness Prayer for Agnes Martin Strewn heat lingers on the landscape, doing nothing and fills in the gaps with less and years and finally. In weeds, a flirtation of wind; slight shaking, promise. Light vaults again which is consolation, desert-full of its rows and spill. She in her...

This was originally posted on The Los Angeles Review. FICTION POETRY NONFICTION BOOK REVIEWS TRANSLATIONS SUBMISSIONS AWARDS ABOUT BUY LAR 2 POEMS BY LAUREN CAMP Prognosis In my end is my beginning. — T.S. Eliot   My father is all at once. It is noon and widens further into another...

Lauren Camp was recently mentioned in an article published by RDR News.  Christina Stock makes her recommendations on the best way to spend an evening; A comforting meal with a comforting book.   By Christina Stock In these past months, since the pandemic hit the state and forced us to...

Read this review of Lauren Camp’s “Took House” by Jennifer Levin. Originally published by Santa Fe New Mexican. Took House by Lauren Camp   A few lines of poetry came to Lauren Camp as she stood outside at dusk. She doesn’t see well at that time of day, when the...