Laura Kolbe
Kolbe studies medicine and poetry at the University of Virginia. Her poems have been heard on With Good Reason, and featured in the Fralin Museum of Art's Writer's Eye collection, while others have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Devil's Lake, and Softblow. Her criticism has appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Bookforum,The Oxonian Review, and the New Yorker.
Reading List
Self-Portrait as Marianne Moore at her Mother’s Funeral
Gettysburg, July 1947 With my good heels and summer wools, I am a conic slice among trapezoids plunged in grass and lapidific ducktails pushed east-northeast by cannon blast. I am not in tears. Like the wild mint I lap against …