LAUREN SCHMIDT is the author of three other collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing; The Voodoo Doll Parade, selected for the Main Street Rag Author’s Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of the Dining Room, a sequence of poems about Schmidt’s volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rattle, Nimrod, Painted Bride Quarterly, PANK, New York Quarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Progressive, among others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize, the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, and the Bellevue Literary Review' s Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry.
The range of Schmidt's vision is exquisite, and the unity of this
work is inspiring. The whole of the poems form a single visionary
revelation, a sustained focus that is very rare these days. No one,
I believe, has ever written with such delicate honesty and
compassion about shelters for homeless women. Filthy Labors is an
indelible whole, an articulation of convictions deeply held and a
life fully lived."—Sam Hamill, author of Almost Paradise, Dumb
Luck, and Destination Zero
"The poetry of Lauren Schmidt does what poetry should do: make the
invisible visible, indelibly, unforgettably."—Martin Espada
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