A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is a death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achie
Poetry. In her fourth poetry collection, STAYING ALIVE, Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during and after the forever-imminent apocalypse. In channeling and s
"Laura Sims is a startlingly original poet whose work goes very deep, like a well made of animal and human bones mortared together with rubber tires, dismembered books, dismembered dolls, and a lot of