poems.
The Common | 2025
Relief | 2025
Radar | 2025
Super 8 | Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Rust & Moth | 2025
Because Pain Is
The Unhealed at Bethesda
Fare Forward | 2025 (forthcoming)
Ars Poetica, with Foxes | Honorable Mention in the annual Fare Forward poetry competition
The Cortland Review | 2024
Ecce Homo
The Denial
Of All Things Seen
And Unseen
Ekstasis | 2024
Black Book DLUX | Spotify | Apple Music | 2022
11 Poems
After the Hurricane
The Dark Room
A Brief History of Alternating Current
The Crank | 2020
The Scores | 2020
Fishing | Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
PREE | 2020
Grindstone Literary Anthology | 2019
Uranium Mine at Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo | Longlisted for the Live Canon Poetry Prize
Vimeo | 2012
about.
Lauren is a Jamaican poet and English teacher. She earned her master’s in creative writing from the University of Oxford, and her work has received an Oxbelly Fellowship, a Helen Zell and Jamaica Poet Laureate’s Young Writers Prize for Poetry, a Grindstone International Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart nomination. She currently lives and teaches in Connecticut.
contact.
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