lauren peat

writer, teacher, wanderer, wonderer • translation editor @volumepoetry • debut poetry chapbook Future Tense out now from @baselinepress (elle/she/her)

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Deep gratitude to Karen Schindler, who shepherded the manuscript to publication with exceptional care; to Annick MacAskill, whose suggestions let new air into the lines; and to the friends, editors, and teachers who emboldened the poems into better versions of themselves.💙

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

I am beyond delighted to announce that my debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, is now available from the inimitable Baseline Press! 🥰

You can order a copy on the Baseline Press website: https://t.co/epGveyADnE... ✨

Photos of by Baseline Press. 📷

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[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

@dwhardisty @spectator Oof, gorgeous @dwhardisty!

[Daniel Hardisty @dwhardisty]

new poem https://t.co/sbJ3mn3aSW dream from twenty years ago published @spectator today

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Kitsilano folks— come join us next Tuesday!

[CityHallWatch @CityHallWchVAN]

Vancouver Tenants Union - Kitsilano Chapter inaugural launch (6-8 pm, Tues/Sept 10, 2024 at Delamont Park) @YVRTenantsUnion #vanpoli #kitsilano #BroadwayPlan https://t.co/prOPkNpXUc

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

@CityHallWchVAN @YVRTenantsUnion Thank you!

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

James Baldwin:

[R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon]

Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.

—Alice Oswald

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Really grateful to have two new poems in this beautiful issue! All my thanks to Iain Higgins for the insightful edits.

[The Malahat Review @malahatreview]

Check your mailboxes and local bookstores for our summer issue 227!
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Featuring cover art by Torkwase Dyson⁠ and new writing by @cbairdlew, @laurencpeat, @SharmaviVivek, Saadi Youssef translated by @kmattawa, and more.
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https://t.co/EYjKh8Omnj

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

!!! Courtesy of @robin_ep_myers' wonderful substack Poem Per Diem.

@yasmineseale

[Elisabeth Adwin Edwards @EAdwinEdwards]

Lisa Olstein.

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Featuring art by @sebacalfuqueo and work by Sandra Lim, @metzlab, Nadja Küchenmeister, Aimee Chor, Orion Allen, @AnnakaSaari, @bartk, Maung Htike Aung, Michelle Phuong Ho, Tony D'Arpino, Rachel Dillon, Cody Koester, and Lexi Pelle.

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Volume 4, Issue 1 of @volumepoetry is now live!

https://t.co/ToMIzL1vl3

[Jacob Wren @EverySongIveEve]

"In the best cases, when you read something, you feel like you’ve known it forever. In the best cases, you feel like it read you first."
– Anna Moschovakis, Participation

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“Our resolve to live is stronger than ever.”

Young Palestinians in southern Gaza are finding resilience through parkour by turning neighbourhoods, destroyed by Israeli bombing, into arenas for their favourite sport ⤵️

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

In case you are unable to read it in The New Yorker or on their website. (There is audio on the website) https://t.co/hCtuLZBywE

[lauren peat @laurencpeat]

Very grateful to @poetry_south for featuring these two poems in their most recent issue!

You can order a copy here: https://t.co/6yb4M1z7us

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

If you do not write your book the result is simple: you are cursed to see fragments of it everywhere, piecemeal, for the rest of your life.