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LAUREL BLOSSOM’s second book-length narrative prose poem,Longevity, will be published by Four Way Books in October 2015. Four Way Books was profiled in the ARts Beat section of the New York Times on July 17, 2014. In order to illustrate its books' quality, publisher Martha Rhodes featured lines from Blossom's first book-klength narrative prose poem, Degrees of Latitude, which was published by Four Way Books in 2007. Blossom's most recent book of lyric poetry is Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, Ridgeway Press, 2004. Earlier books include The Papers Said , What’s Wrong , and a chapbook, Any Minute . An earlier long poem, the mock epic “Easy Come/Easy Go,” was published in American Poetry Review in summer, 1976. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins , and in national and international journals including Poetry, Pequod, The Paris Review, Pleiades, xconnect, The Carolina Quarterly, Deadsnake Apotheosis, Many Mountains Moving, Seneca Review, things, and Harper’s, among others, and online at friggmagazine.com, BigCityLit.com, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been nominated for both the Elliston Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

Blossom is the editor of Splash! Great Writing About Swimming and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from The Writers Community , among others. She serves on the editorial board of Heliotrope: a journal of poetry.

Blossom has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and Harris Manchester College , where she was elected Regent Emeritus in 2008. She co-founded The Writers Community, the esteemed writing residency and advanced workshop program of the YMCA National Writer’s Voice. She serves on the Boards of the Laura Jackson Foundation in Vero Beach, Florida and the Musical Arts Association in Cleveland, Ohio.

Blossom belongs to The Explorers Club in New York City. She lives in rural South Carolina, where she curates an occasional poetry and fiction reading series.

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Laurel Blossom

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Books from Laurel Blossom

Splash!: Great Writing about Swimming

Degrees of Latitude

Longevity

Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community

The Ocean State Review Vol. 4, No. 1

Chicago Quarterly Review Vol. 34

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