Laura Lee Washburn
Laura Lee Washburn

Laura Lee Washburn is a University Professor, the Director of Creative Writing at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, and the author of This Good Warm Place: 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition (March Street) and Watching the Contortionists (Palanquin Chapbook Prize). Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Cavalier Literary Couture, Carolina Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Sun, Red Rock Review, and Valparaiso Review. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, she has also lived and worked in Arizona and in Missouri. She is married to the writer Roland Sodowsky and is one of the founders and the Co-President of the Board of SEK Women Helping Women. https://www.facebook.com/sekwhw

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Fog

thinking of Mew and Eliot

Fog became the metaphor for all my grief, following me to the veterinary clinic where it pressed against the parking lot, then back home away from the euthanized cat, and for days later through Kansas and into icy Missouri. I couldn’t stop thinking it was torturing me when I found it delaying our flight to […]

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