Laura Davies Foley 

Laura Davies FoleyLaura Davies Foley received the Grand Prize in Atlanta Review's International Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in many journals including: Valparaiso Review, Inquiring Mind, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Across Borders, The Georgetown Review, The Newport Review, in the film Milk of Many Years, and Syringa, in the anthologies: In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief, The Still Puddle Poets, and The Still Puddle Poets: New Poems.  Her work has been featured on Gratefulness.org and Care2.com and poetsagainsthewar.org, and she was awarded a Fellowship at Frost Place.

Laura holds graduate degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. She does chaplaincy work in hospitals and prisons, and has completed a Chaplaincy Training Program through the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

She is the author of two books of poetry: Syringa, StarMeadow Press, and Mapping the Fourth Dimension, Harbor Mountain Press. She lives and writes on the wide banks of the Connecticut River in Cornish, New Hampshire.

On Sat. April 18th Laura was the featured reader at the Kingdom Books Poetry Party, in St. Johnsbury Vermont. Poet and Editor April Ossmann introduced her with these words:

"Laura Foley’s poetry reminds me of Louise Gluck’s in its effective use of statement and deceptively plain-seeming speech, and of Kevin Goodan’s poetry in its use of nature and in its sincerity…

It’s refreshing and wonderful to read poetry that isn’t all about irony…Foley’s poems are honest, patient and full of yearning, grateful and accepting, discomfiting and comforting, all at once, and her use of imagery beautifully moving and accurate. These are words that, to paraphrase Jane Austen, pierce the soul—they are half agony, half hope."

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Syringa, a short film by Billy Sharff, featuring the wild goose with a broken wing.

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