Poetry. Through portraits painted in a muted palette, PANIC embraces the ratcheting music of grief. Laura McCullough strives to uncover secrets beneath the platitudinal. Her narrative lyrics juxtapose private and public despair, portraying isolated stoicism against the backdrop of rippling disorder. "Lovely and vigilant poems lay bare those seen and unseen forces that expose us again and again to our own mortality, to our daily yearning for beauty and grace. Embracing the narrative range of a novelist, Laura McCullough writes with the razored scrutiny of the fine poet she is, making PANIC a timely and important book you simply must read"—Andre Dubus III.

Author City: LINCROFT, NJ USA

Laura McCullough has published four collections of poetry, including PANIC (Alice James Books), Speech Acts (Black Lawrence Press), WHAT MEN WANT (XOXOX Press), The Dancing Bear (Open Book Press), and a chapbook of prose poems, Elephant Anger (online from Mudlark). Her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, and other journals and magazines. She was in the Critical and Creative Writing Doctoral Program at Bangor University in Wales, completing one year before her institutional funding was pulled. Her scholarship focused on the poetry and essays of Stephen Dunn. She teaches full time and founded the Creative Writing Program at Brookdale Community College in central Jersey.

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