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. In 2007 she was awarded a Fellowship at Frost Place. Her poem "Father-in-law" was nominated, in October 2009, for a Pushcart Prize.

Laura holds graduate degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. She is a chaplain in training at Beth Israel Hospital in NYC under the guidance of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and has facilitated meditation in men's prisons in NH.

In October 2009 she took part in a Street Retreat.Thank you to all who contributed! With your help, she raised over $700 for homeless shelters in New York City.

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 two rivers: the Connecticut River in Cornish New Hampshire and the East River in New York City.


Film

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

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