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Just Listen to Yourself 2021

Biography

Dorie LaRue is the author of two novels, Resurrecting Virgil, from Backwaters Imprint of the University of Nebraska Press and The Trouble With Student Affairs from Artemis Press; three chapbooks of poetry, Seeking the Monsters from New Spirit Press, The Private Frenzy, from Jazzbones Press, In God’s Due Time from Parousias Press; a full length collection of poetry, Mad Rains from Kelsay Press; and a full length collection of poems, An Enemy in Their Mouths from Finishing Line Press. She recently received second place for Only Visiting This Planet, a short story collection, in the West Virginia Writing Awards for 2019. She has attended Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writing Conference. Her fiction and poetry and book reviews have appeared in a variety of journals including, The Southern Review, The Maryland Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review. She obtained her Ph.D. in creative writing and American Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, and teaches writing and literature at LSUS.

Poems Read 2021

It’s Not an Escalating War
A Mother in Chongqing
Back When I Still Went to the Bahamas        
All the Mothers
So, Whoever Said Pain is Inevitable  
Somewhere Someone is Googling     
It’s Just Nature           
Among the Paradoxes
Drug Taking Can Be Thwarted          
So, This is Reality
My Manifesting is Taking Too Long

Selected Works