Laura Scheffler Morgan Q&A on the pleasure of writing poetry
Laura Scheffler Morgan talks about what she finds to be the most pleasurable aspect of writing poetry.
Laura Scheffler Morgan
Laura Scheffler Morgan Q&A on her first poem
Laura Scheffler Morgan talks about the first poem she ever wrote.
The Arrow Paradox
If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always in a now, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. —Zeno, as refuted by Aristotle Drink with me in this zinging arrow − this train, in our borrowed, cracked maroon leather booth. Let's share […]
Romance, A Souvenir
A galaxy, maybe, I said once to a pitcher in Annapolis, ceramic the swirled ink colors of deep space − or sea − neither place I've been or will likely be, though both throw into sharp relief the hues of what's more familiar: a highway-side prairie, a garter snake, house- fly, fallen weather-threaded maple […]
One Quick Question
What is it about my sunbathing knee that draws the damselfly − the sheen of sun, the faceted near flat landing; or my still hand, either left, or right, above, praising the weather of wood grain and how copper freckles are made by an absence of impatience and a taste for waiting, for mindlessness − […]
Reverb
…If the world knew how the light bulb loved the socket then we would all be better off. –Matthew Dickman, "Love" − Or how the needle adores the vinyl right all up in its groove, how the laser's crazy for the spinning disc, and the guitar string pulls at the pinch of the pick. […]
Ikebana
Today, I get what I measure: the word I woke to, a day that starts without me. Outside, amongst heady warming blaze- bursts of mum, antiseptic sweet breeze off the rose bush, into a ceramic mug […]
Laura Scheffler Morgan
Laura Scheffler Morgan has won two Academy of American Poets poetry prizes and other poetry prizes and awards. She has worked for Persea Books and The Missouri Review. Several of her earlier poems have appeared in Artful Dodge. She is a student in the MA program for Creative Writing / Poetry at the University of […]