Laurie Kuntz

Laurie Kuntz

Laurie Kuntz’s books are: That Infinite Roar, Gyroscope Press, Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press, Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press. Simple Gestures won Texas Review’s Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, and other journals. She currently resides in Florida, where everyday is a political poem waiting to be written. Visit her at https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/. Laurie recommends the Human Rights Campaign.

How terribly strange to be impregnated 
by an uncle, a father, a neighbor,
a teacher, a doctor.
Remaining silent at 17, 
carrying the attack,

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