Visual Poetry by Lauren Haldeman
Liberal, Kansas
Poem written by Jesse Nathan
Making a Baby
Poem written by Lauren Haldeman
Lauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 2017), Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014) and the artist book The Eccentricity is Zero (Digraph Press, 2014). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, The Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review and The Rumpus. A comic book artist and poet, she has taught in the U.S. as well as internationally, including a reading and lecture tour of South Africa sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. She has been a recipient of the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can find her online at http://laurenhaldeman.com
Photo: Ian Huebert
Jesse Nathan‘s poems appear in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, Zeek, and the Boston Review. He grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and lives now in San Francisco. The poem “Liberal, Kansas” appears in The Believer Logger.