The Braid
Lauren Levin Lauren Levin

The Braid

Krupskaya Books, 2016. THE BRAID is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, it interrogates the idealized portrait of mother and child to wind up somewhere much messier. Winner, San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award.

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Justice Piece// Transmission
Lauren Levin Lauren Levin

Justice Piece// Transmission

Timeless, Infinite Light / Nightboat 2018. These twin poems ask “If I am the symptom, what is the cause?” Ranging from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to feminist sci-fi, gendered violence to Led Zeppelin, disciplinary heterosexuality to hypochondria, JP//T tackles questions of how personal history and pop culture build us up — and tear us to shreds.

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Nightwork
Lauren Levin Lauren Levin

Nightwork

NIGHTWORK collects a series of long poems, spanning the registers of elegy and love poem, city poem and invocation, against a backdrop of political action, thought, and the pulse of desire and daily life within a larger Bay Area community.

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Honey Mine by Camille Roy
Lauren Levin Lauren Levin

Honey Mine by Camille Roy

Nightboat Books, 2021. This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy, edited by Lauren Levin and Eric Sneathen, explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.

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