LAURA KASISCHKE has published ten poetry collections, ten novels, and one short story collection. Her most recent book of poetry, Where Now – New and Selected Poems (2017) and was published by Copper Canyon Press. Her 2011 poetry collection, Space, In Chains, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other poetry collections include: The Infinitesimals (2014) Lilies, Without (2o12), Gardening in the Dark (2004), Dance and Disappear (2002), What It Wasn’t (2002), Fire and Flower (1998), Housekeeping in a Dream (1995) and Wild Brides (1991). Her poems and stories have been published in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan, and lives with her husband and son in Chelsea, Michigan.
Laura Kasischke
Past Festivals and Updates:
Yusef Komunyakaa is our featured Thomas Lux Memorial Poet for the 18th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. On Tuesday, January 11th, Komunyakaa will sit for a conversation with poet and consummate interviewer, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, who inspires ... Read more >
May 20, 2022 – Lake Worth, FL — After a great deal of research, legwork, and many thoughtful discussions, with staff, our board, and our advisory board, it has been decided that we will not ... Read more >
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is no stranger to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She taught workshops here in 2014 and 2018, and next year she returns as the 18thAnnual Festival’s Poet-at-Large. Ideally, the Poet-at-Large visits several schools ... Read more >