Lauren Bender
@laurensurely.bsky.social
soon I'll have that little mermaid & the ocean will be mine — http://benderpoet.tumblr.com/writing
I have a poem in Jelly Squid's new issue with the theme proximity 💚
www.jellysquid.site/issue-3/your...
www.jellysquid.site/issue-3/your...
your marriage to the main character • Lauren Bender
your marriage to the main character by Lauren Bender
www.jellysquid.site
May 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have a poem in Jelly Squid's new issue with the theme proximity 💚
www.jellysquid.site/issue-3/your...
www.jellysquid.site/issue-3/your...
Reposted by Lauren Bender
🪿POETRY 🪿
This one makes me gasp every time I read it:
BUT, REMEMBER, by @laurensurely.bsky.social
“I was the one who couldn't stop touching then…”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-four/b...
This one makes me gasp every time I read it:
BUT, REMEMBER, by @laurensurely.bsky.social
“I was the one who couldn't stop touching then…”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-four/b...
But, remember, — SillyGoosePress
on mobile? turn phone sideways! I was the one who couldn't stop touching then, who wanted to have endless sex in my silly adolescent room, who begged you to come over for...
sillygoosepress.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🪿POETRY 🪿
This one makes me gasp every time I read it:
BUT, REMEMBER, by @laurensurely.bsky.social
“I was the one who couldn't stop touching then…”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-four/b...
This one makes me gasp every time I read it:
BUT, REMEMBER, by @laurensurely.bsky.social
“I was the one who couldn't stop touching then…”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-four/b...
who are the five writers that made you?
(not sure what "made you" means but these were very influential at various times in early adulthood when I felt like my poetry was growing in new directions!)
Anne Sexton
Marge Piercy
Jane Kenyon
Louise Glück
Wisława Szymborska
(not sure what "made you" means but these were very influential at various times in early adulthood when I felt like my poetry was growing in new directions!)
Anne Sexton
Marge Piercy
Jane Kenyon
Louise Glück
Wisława Szymborska
who are the five writers that made you?
Stephen King
Kelly Link
Angela Carter
Octavia Butler
Russell Edson
Stephen King
Kelly Link
Angela Carter
Octavia Butler
Russell Edson
who are the five writers that made you?
Terry Pratchett
Toni Morrison
Mikhail Bulgakov
Margaret Atwood
John Keats
Terry Pratchett
Toni Morrison
Mikhail Bulgakov
Margaret Atwood
John Keats
March 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
who are the five writers that made you?
(not sure what "made you" means but these were very influential at various times in early adulthood when I felt like my poetry was growing in new directions!)
Anne Sexton
Marge Piercy
Jane Kenyon
Louise Glück
Wisława Szymborska
(not sure what "made you" means but these were very influential at various times in early adulthood when I felt like my poetry was growing in new directions!)
Anne Sexton
Marge Piercy
Jane Kenyon
Louise Glück
Wisława Szymborska
Reposted by Lauren Bender
hi, i’ve got a poem about god and grief up on the Best American Poetry blog today, and I’m so grateful to Terence Winch for making it his pick of the week
Emma Bolden: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_____________________________________________________________________________ My Mother Says There’s Beauty Even in the Midst of Loss but I am no longer listening, I am no longer looking out of the ca...
blog.bestamericanpoetry.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM
hi, i’ve got a poem about god and grief up on the Best American Poetry blog today, and I’m so grateful to Terence Winch for making it his pick of the week
Reposted by Lauren Bender
Newest AC email edition features work by Stephanie Yue Duhem, something from the archives by Simon Perchik, updates on @benderpoet.bsky.social, @badbadpoet.bsky.social, and @neonpajamas.bsky.social, and not one but two absolute bangers titled "A Spy in the House of Love"
"Pages of Charts, Chirring Decline! Decline! Decline!"
featuring mandibles, moonlight, Moreau's doctoring, multiple spies in the house of love
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January 3, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Newest AC email edition features work by Stephanie Yue Duhem, something from the archives by Simon Perchik, updates on @benderpoet.bsky.social, @badbadpoet.bsky.social, and @neonpajamas.bsky.social, and not one but two absolute bangers titled "A Spy in the House of Love"
phoebe mid-bath 🖤
October 30, 2023 at 12:04 AM
phoebe mid-bath 🖤
some blue sky for bluesky land
August 17, 2023 at 2:33 AM
some blue sky for bluesky land
I am here! hello and ❤ to all
August 10, 2023 at 11:03 PM
I am here! hello and ❤ to all