Laura Sheahen

Poetry & literature

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

My poem "Recall" is in The Amphibian, a Netherlands-based journal:

https://t.co/IY8UogJWR2

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

I have a poem up today at @InkSweatTears

https://t.co/25j0t45uJF

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My poem "The Voodoo Doll Wakes Up" is in Trampoline Poetry:
https://t.co/5NUy9SSJD8
@TrampolinePoet1

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

Missed this earlier; thanks @Poetry_Daily for surfacing my review of gorgeous Song dynasty poems:

[Poetry Daily @Poetry_Daily]

Review: Shangyang Fang’s Study of Sorrow: Translations

"We owe Fang a debt for bringing the delicacy, obliqueness, and sheer tremulous beauty of these Chinese poems to English-speaking readers."

Read here:
https://t.co/ojlAGBxojD

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

A beautiful venue for beautiful poems--

[Victoria Chang @VChangPoet]

Jane Hirshfield gave a beautiful lecture on haiku and tankas at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

[Aôthen Magazine @AothenMagazine]

Laura Sheahen puts a twist on the consequences of Pandora's box in her poem for Issue 10 - hit the link on our profile to read the whole thing 🧡

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My poem "Pandora" is in the latest issue (desktop PDF) of @AothenMagazine , which focuses on ancient myths.

https://t.co/jyNs1OUs1t

The issue includes cool art, like this image by @godstained

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

"The twentieth century’s greatest poetry critic looked at the greatest poets of that century, and chose Yeats."

--My appreciation of poetry critic Helen Vendler is in the @IrishTimes (subscribers). #WBYeats

https://t.co/AvqFg988HJ

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My review of beautiful poetry translations from the Chinese by #ShangyangFang, a talent to watch:

https://t.co/YVTSFLXh0g

[The Lincoln Review @lincoln_review]

"The woman rubs the silver surface longer / as if a truer mirror would be kinder."
From Pause, a poem by Laura Sheahen, featured in Issue 6.
🌿 Gentle, reflective, with quiet truths.
Read more at https://t.co/9br4YvQlt4

@UofLWriting
#poetry #literaryjournal #writing

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

The Fortnightly Review just published my poem "The Country of Bodily Pain":

https://t.co/vmaIgw1F9B

#butyoudontlooksick #ChronicPain

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

On a bookish trip to Lithuania, I asked many people about #Dostoyevsky. In most cases, they told me Russian classics are anathema.

#Dostoevsky #Baltics #RussianLiterature

https://t.co/9HHyDdaQWc

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My poem "Lachrymosa" recently published in
@lincoln_review
https://t.co/0jlmBbdbOX

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

"be freedom’s intermediary hold the escape rope smuggle the message give the sign." The poetry of #ZbigniewHerbert often reads like a panicked ransom-note job description for artists living under totalitarian regimes. My review: https://t.co/cqz14VA4HT @PolishInstNY

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My poem "Pashtun Marriage Contract" appears in the new anthology "Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution" (@guernica_ed).

The poem is based on talks I had with Afghan refugee women who suffered domestic violence.

#WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini @BanooZan

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

Only in the telegraph wires
a message still
crackled:

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

Van Gogh's #loneliness: My review of a new book about the artist's formative years in Paris, where he made astounding progress in art--but no friends.

https://t.co/KJ0AGggwYq

#art #painting #VanGogh #MentalHealth

[Laura Sheahen @LauraSheahen]

Some decent poems in the recent @TriQuarterlyMag, including by Lee Upton and Andrew Grace: https://t.co/tbzMwI8rUg

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https://t.co/SEMWF5eK2O

[The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse]

This week’s poem on The Arts Fuse: Laura Sheahan’s “Alibi” https://t.co/LuqwE1K01L