Laura L. Hansen, Poet
winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize
winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize
Announcing a new poetry chapbook,
Waiting Rooms,
My Breast Cancer Journey in Poems
now available for order on "Place Orders" page.
Includes the award-winning poem,
Mastectomy Bras.
Waiting Rooms,
My Breast Cancer Journey in Poems
now available for order on "Place Orders" page.
Includes the award-winning poem,
Mastectomy Bras.
The Night Journey;
Stories and Poems,
River Place Press
To order, click HERE
Also available at
The Shoppes of Little Falls,
Great River Arts in Little Falls
and
Beagle Wolf Books and Bindery
in Park Rapids.
Poems forthcoming in -
Broad Wings, Long Legs:
A Rookery of Heron Poems
by Northstar Press
Now available:
We Had To Be: An Anthology
and Breast Cancer Fundraiser
Edited by Joely Serino
When I hold a pen in my hand I am like a tree ready to be tapped. Think of me as a Sugar Maple, having stored up last year's sunshine, weathered the winter wind and snow, and now in the days of chilly nights and warming afternoons I am ready to let my collected light seep out and the pen is the tap that pierces my bark. Without it, I would hold in all the goodness and light, the venom and tears, the sights I have seen . I would hide under my canopy of leaves until summer waned and I would return to my winter sleep without sharing a thing. Instead there is this moment of opening, this pale sugary sap that you can tip your tongue into or hold a bucket under to take home and boil down to its essence and taste and taste and taste.
