Lauren Brazeal is
the author of two chapbooks, Zoo for Well-Groomed Eaters (Dancing Girl Press,
2016), and exuviae (Horse
Less Press, 2016). Her first full-length collection, Gutter, is
releasing in the summer of 2018 from Yes Yes Books. In her past, Brazeal has
been a homeless gutter-punk, a resident of Ecuador’s Amazon jungle, a maid, a
surfer chick, and a custom aquarium designer. A graduate of Bennington’s MFA
program in writing and literature, her work has appeared in journals such
as DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Barrelhouse, Forklift, Ohio, and Verse Daily.
How does a poem begin?
I tend to write two kinds of poems. Sometimes the poem arrives fully
formed, and I act more like a transcriber—jotting down the words as though
they’re being dictated to me from a speaker outside myself. Other times, I hack
away at a poem, and it’s a slow, sweaty, chiseling effort. These poems
sometimes go through months of edits before reaching a finishing point. Most
often though, my work is a combination of the two: an impulse or series of
inspirations that require teasing and manipulation in places.
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