Beatrice Lazarus's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals inc
luding The Lyric, Pearl, Sou’wester, Clark Street Review, Poem, The Iconoclast, Plainsongs, Small Pond Magazine of Literature, and Pegasus Literary Magazine, among others. One of her poems, "Laparoscopy," can be found in the February 2012 issue of JAMA (Poetry and Medicine column). Her poem, "Break of Day," is the winner of The Briar Cliff Review Poetry Prize, 2013.
In 2008 she founded The Poetry Loft, which first gathered writers together in a "loft" space above a grocery store nestled on a hilltop. Their core vision: How can we improve our craft and grow as writers? How can poetry make a difference in our lives and in our community?
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► Bea's microchap & selected poems are available below.
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Origami Micro-chapbook |
Selected Poem(s) |
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On a reading of poems at the Towers
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Opening Lines They come slowly up, swim
reddened seas to get here. The night before they could not sleep, eyes fixed on feckless words, lines criss-crossed, passed over, tossed into black wastebaskets, declarations unsaid. Some things are not meant to be read. They’ll force a galaxy into an ocean, sunrise into the glow of a clock, a great wave of sighs into the kiss goodnight. •
Beatrice Lazarus © 2013
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1. She leans flaccid into the crook of my elbow,
a stranger’s sheltering arm, her head flung back, bearing the weight of her young muscles, their faraway yoke, their mitochondrial mourning. Her limbs enflamed with the untranslatable, a phantom memory of escape, of being tossed. Her eyes always on me, she searches anything,
everything, for an inexplicable vanishing. I want to understand such solitude spilling out of sorrow, how she is always close to falling, tremulous at the edge of some unnavigable tracks, crying love love love up against a stranger's brown faux fur. •
Beatrice Lazarus © 2009
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