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Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United Statesin 1987. Fluent in four languages, she has also published poems in French and Flemish. She is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (with an introduction by Charles Simic), and of Small Gods of Grief, which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001. Her third book, A New Hunger, was selected as an ALA Notable Book in 2008.
Among other publications, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Washington Post, AGNI, Georgia Review and Harvard Review as well as in numerous anthologies. One of her poems won the National Poetry Contest, sponsored by I.E. magazine. She is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.
Laure-Anne is the editor of four anthologies: Night
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

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A New Hunger

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Small Gods of Grief

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Urban Nature: Poems About W...

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Outsiders: Poems About Rebe...

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These Many Rooms

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Never Before: Poems About F...

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Rooms Remembered

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Lately: New and Selected Poems

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“Think of it: the worlds in this world.”
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

“I sometimes go months without remembering you.
Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.”
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, A New Hunger
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“Do you believe at times that a moment chooses
you to remember it entirely & tell about it —
so that it may live again?

— Laure-Anne Bosselaar, from “Lately,” Vox Populi (11 June 2022)”
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