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WLS / poet

WLS is a poet. Her first book, Psychogynecology, was published by Monster House Press in 2015. She is a co-editor of poetry books, ephemera, & experiences at Poiesis, SYZYGY (2020), Monster House Press & Monster House Presents (2016-2019), and Soft River (2010-2016). Her poems can be found in print and online at Poets.org, Breakwater, The Portland Review, Carolina Quarterly, W The Trees, and more. Originally from so-called Indiana she currently lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.

WLS received her BFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & her MFA in poetry from Indiana University. Awards, honors, residencies & fellowships, as well as publications and contact information can be found below.

CONTACT – WLS.poet[at]gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Psychogynecology, Monster House Press, 2015

Anthologies

Undeniable: Writer’s Respond to Climate Change (Alternating Current Press, 2020).

Unchartable: On Environmental Unknowns, (Portland Review 2019). Volume 65.

Journals

Carolina Quarterly, “El Monte Homestead / A Sequence,” “Belle Isle Aquarium,” “Brainstone (Variation),” “The Dogcatchers Vacation at Cape Lookout,” “The Dogcatchers Before the Flood,” October 2020.

Poiesis, Vol. 1.1,“ Elegy for Hiding w/ a Line by Roethke,” July 2020.

Soundings East, Vol. 42, “Prayer to the Saint of Loss,” July 2020.

Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment, “The Dogcatchers Discuss Fields,” “The Dogcatchers in their Apartment,” “The Dogcatchers Growing Up,” “The Dogcatchers Visit the Reservoir,” “The Dogcatchers Have a Plan,” June 2020.

Breakwater Review, Issue 25,“On the Last Day There Was Snow,” August 2019.

Up the Staircase Quarterly, “Funeral for Now,” “A Greeting to a Possible Lover,” May 2019.

DeLuge Journal, “Freshet” and “Swiflet,” Fall 2018.

Poets.org, “Poem in the Form of Anger,” August 2018.

Poets.org, “Can I Tell You,” August 2017.

INTERVIEWS/AUDIO/PRESS

The Poets Weave, Indiana Public Media: “Elegy for Hiding with a Line by Roethke” and “An End to All Things.” / “Three Dogcatcher poems.” / “Funeral for Now,” “On the last day there was snow,” “Prayer to the Saint of Loss,” and “Poem in the Form of Anger.” Summer, 2019.

Putty, Season 1, episode 2 w/ Monster House Press hosted by Erin K. Drew, September 13, 2017

Review of Psychogynecology by Zack Hatfield on Diagram