Poet "the painter of the soul"
~ Isaac D'Israeli
Logo art "The Howling Man" designed by the fabulous and talented Lydia Foster. Lydia Foster is a poet who lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Editor: Laura LeHew
6 Word Bio
After Grad School: cats, coffee, cholesterol.
506 Word Bio
Laura LeHew is an award winning poet whose work appears in a myriad of national and international journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, Beauty, published by Tiger's Eye Press in 2009, is in its second printing. She received her MFA in writing from California College of Arts, a residency from Soapstone, interned for CALYX Journal an independent publisher of literature and art by women, and was nominated for a Pushcart. She is the vice-president of the board of directors of the Oregon State Poetry Association (OSPA), is a co-coordinator of the OSPA Eugene/Springfield chapter-Springfield Library Reading Series, and is a former OSPA Contest Chair. Laura was on the Board of the Roving Park Players an itinerant community theater company. She is currently a member of the Lane Literary Guild's steering committee and facilitates a critique group the Let Them Eat Cake Poets.
She is currently working on a collection of poems entitled Thirst which explores the alcoholic dementia of her little sister and a collection entitled Silence which is more experimental in nature and looks at the negative spaces-what is not said.
She has eight cats, one husband, and never sleeps.
- And this is where her work is, has been or will be:
- 34th Parallel
- A cappella Zoo
- The Alabama Writer's Conclave
- Alehouse Press
- The Altruist
- Arabesques Review (contemporary Women Writers issue),
- Big Pulp
- Big Toe Review
- Boston Literary Magazine
- Breadcrumb Scabs
- Burning Bush
- Carnelian
- Cerulean Rain
- Cherry Bleeds
- The Cherry Blossom Review
- Chickenpinata
- The Clearfield Review
- Clutching at Straws
- Counter Example Poetics
- Denali
- Detroit Writers Guild Contests-1st Place - 2009 Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest
- Dogplotz
- Earth's Daughters
- Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems- Ragged Sky Press
- Ellipsis Magazine
- Elysian Fields Quarterly
- Farming Magazine
- The Feline Muse
- Gander Press Review
- Gargoyle Magazine
- Genie
- Ghost Town Review
- Ginosko Literary Journal
- Gloom Cupboard
- Green Silk
- Half Way Down the Stairs
- HeArts Desire from ElizaPress
- HeartLodge
- Her Mark Calendar '07 & '09
- Homestead Review-Central Coast Writers Poetry & Fiction Contest
- In Our Own Voices-Oregon Writer's Colony
- J The Literary Journal
- Kudzu
- La Fovea
- lines written with a razor
- The Mad Poet's Society
- madswirl
- The Medulla Review
- The Mixtape Journal
- New Dawn Fades
- The New Verse News
- NewMyths.com
- No Posit
- The Northville Review
- Not Just Air
- Orbis
- outwardlink.net
- Ozone Park
- Pank
- Pearl Magazine
- Pemmican Press
- Peralta Press
- Perceptions
- Perigee
- PMS
- Pocket Change
- Poe Little Thing
- poeticdiversity
- Poetry Now
- Poet's Ink Review
- Polu Texni
- Portland Pen Poetry Contest
- Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling
- Quicksilver
- The Raleigh Review
- The Rattlesnake Review
- Red Fez Publications
- The Register Guard
- Right Hand Pointing
- The San Francisco Reader
- you say. say-Uphook Press
- Scalped
- Sheperds Check
- Shine
- Slice Magazine
- Snow Monkey
- Soundzine
- Tiger's Eye: A Journal of Poetry
- The Syracuse Cultural Workers' Women Artists Datebook '10
- Third Wednesday
- Thresholds
- Tiny Lights
- The Tonopah Review
- Two Hawks Quarterly
- Untamed Ink
- Uttered Chaos-The Quizzical Chair
- Vagabond Press-The Battered Suitcase
- VerseWeavers
- Viola Beadleton's Compendium of Seriously Silly and Astoundingly Amazing Stories
- WILD THINGS- Domestic and Otherwise-Outrider Press
- Work
- Writer's Post Journal
- The Writing Room-Alzheimer Society
- wtf pwm
- Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House from Winterhawk Press and
- Zygote in My Coffee.