Laura Davies Foley 

Laura Davies FoleyLaura Davies Foley received the Grand Prize in Atlanta Review's International Poetry Contest.  This summer she was awarded a Frost Place Fellowship, nominated by NH Poet Laureate Pat Fargnoli. She has been the Featured Poet on the NH Poet Laureate's web page. Her poems have appeared in Inquiring Mind, 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, and The Still Puddle Poets, and other journals.  Her work has been featured on Gratefulness.org and Care2.com. 

Her poem "Echoes" was recently published by Valparaiso Review and her poem "Practicing Peace" was selected as POEM OF THE MONTH for poetsagainstthewar.org.

Laura holds graduate degrees in English Literature from Columbia University. She facilitates meditation in Concord, NH and Berlin, NH prisons, and has completed the Advanced Study and Practice Program in Buddhist studies, in Barre Ma.

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.

Film

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

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