Creative Conversations: Laynie Browne

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American Poet Laynie Browne in Conversation

42 Bute Gardens (916)

Creative Conversations: Laynie BrowneDate: 10 March 2025Time: 6-7pmLocation: 42 Bute Gardens (916)Laynie Browne was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Brown University. She is the author of thirteen collections of poems and three novels. Her most recent collections of poems include You Envelop Me (Omnidawn, 2017), P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel, 2015), and Scorpyn Odes (Kore Press, 2015). Of her book Daily Sonnets, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ron-silliman" title="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ron-silliman" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ron Silliman</a> writes: “It’s a stunner and a delight. A pure dose of heady oxygen” and “an icon for the generations of poets who are about to show up.” Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship; a National Poetry Series Award for The Scented Fox (2007), selected by Alice Notley; a Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005); and residencies at The MacDowell Colony. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Catalan. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013), Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013), Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008). Her critical writing has appeared in journals including Jacket2, Aufgabe , Open Letter, and Talisman. She co-edited I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012) and is currently editing an anthology of original essays on the poet’s novel. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

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