Milk

In her latest collection, Dorothea Lasky brings her signature style-a deeply felt and uncanny word-music-to all matters of creativity, from poetry and the invention of new language to motherhood and the production of new life. At once a personal document as it is an occult text,Milkinvestigates overused paradigms of what it means to be a creator and encapsulates its horrors and joys-setting fire to the enigma that drives the vital force that enables poems, love, and life to happen.

Dorothea Laskyis the author of five full-length collections of poetry: Milk (forthcoming, Wave Books, 2018),Rome(Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014),Thunderbird(Wave Books, 2012),Black Life(Wave Books, 2010), andAWE(Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including:Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2017), Thing (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012), Matter: A Picturebook(Argos Books, 2012),The Blue Teratorn(Yes Yes Books, 2012),Poetry is Not a Project(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010),Tourmaline(Transmission Press, 2008),The Hatmaker's Wife(2006),Art(H_NGM_N Press, 2005), andAlphabets and Portraits(Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared inAmerican Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, POETRY, Poets & Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, and6x6, among other places. She is the co-editor ofOpen the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry(McSweeney's, 2013) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania,is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst,and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.