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Alumna and Poet Laura LeHew Scores Not One, but Two Publishing Accomplishments
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, by Jim Norrena
CCA Alumna and poet Laura LeHew (MFA in Writing 2003) is one of 100 contemporary poets being featured in Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, published by Ragged Sky Press, which includes other noteworthy local writers and literary luminaries such as Kim Addonizio, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic. Eating Her Wedding Dress celebrates clothing in its many forms and functions as: desire, ghost, body, poetry, talisman, and transformer of the soul.
Amazon reviewer Michele J. Russo describes the anthology as ". . . artfully composed—each poem took me to a different human experience, all with the theme of clothing tying them together. From the introduction to the last piece, it is a delight. Reading it made me realize how complex our relationship to clothing is, and the very important place it holds in our spiritual and emotional lives."
Ragged Sky Press was founded in 1992 by poet and publisher Ellen Foos (a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a member of Princeton's U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative) and provides quality works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Additionally, LeHew's poem "Fandom in Six Acts: With No Intermissions" was accepted for publication by Polu Texni (a Greek phrase meaning many arts). The poem, written in an experimental form, is described by the poet as addressing science fiction fandom.