Poet and essayist, author of
Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice, Persea Books
Books
Ghost Hour
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, the poems in Ghost Hour emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood―the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. As in her previous poetry, Laura Cronk writes personally, intimately, yet never without profound consideration of onslaught of contemporary violence, which we must love in spite of and rage against.
Having Been an Accomplice
Winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
In this arresting debut, love poems and interior monologues are reinvented in a time of war. Within them, Laura Cronk writes, “I want to blow up the Law with Language, having run my tongue around my mouth ten thousand times. Instead of not speaking, I want to speak.”
Laura Cronk is a poet and essayist and the author of two books of poems, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice from Persea Books. Her poems and essays appear in journals and anthologies such as The Bennington Review, Court Green, Iterant, Lit Hub, and several editions of Best American Poetry. She teaches and collaborates with writers at The New School where she is an assistant professor of writing and poetry chair for the MFA in Creative Writing graduate program. Originally from Indiana, she has lived in and around New York City for many years.
Selected Work
Poems
Good Mother & Forty-Four, The Bennington Review
Who Knows the Sadness of Steel As It Is Being Made & The Killers, Action, Spectacle
Faux, Perfect Porn Poem & The General, Iterate
Today: What Is Sexy & Mythological Rape Painting,
Court Green
Four Poems, Literary Hub
Three Poems, BIG OTHER
The American Experiment, Public Seminar
Three Poems, Stat O Rec
Jersey City Poems, Seventh Wave
Thirst, Academy of American Poets
Two Poems, The Curator
Vegetarian Poem, The Literary Review
Five Poems, Locus Point
Essays
Courage & Candor: Laura Cronk on Fanny Howe, Teachers & Writers Magazine
Playlist Inspired By Ghost Hour, Largehearted Boy
The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts, Literary Hub
On Writing, Parenthood, and Trying to Stay a Little Wild, Literary Hub
Raw Milk, Gawker
Reviews
Ghost Hour
Having Been an Accomplice