Lauren Shakely is an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, editor, and publisher.

Life

Her grandfather was Federal Appeals Judge Warren L. Jones.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Denison University

Denison University

Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...

 in 1970.

Since the publication of this book, she has worked in the publishing industry for more than 20 years, holding senior editorial positions at Rizzoli

RCS MediaGroup

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, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

, Aperture

Aperture (magazine)

Aperture is a quarterly photography magazine and a book publisher based in New York, New York. The magazine is published by Aperture Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to fine art photography.-Magazine:...

, and ARTnews

ARTnews

ARTnews is an arts magazine based in New York, founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hyde’s Weekly Art News. It is published 11 times a year.ARTnews covers all art, from ancient to Post-modernism...

.

She is now senior vice president and the publisher of Clarkson Potter Publishing, a division of Random House

Random House

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, which publishes among others, Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising...

.

Her work appeared in Sulfur, Aperture,

She lives in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

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Awards

• 1977 Walt Whitman Award selected by poet Diane Wakoski
  Diane Wakoski
  Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  

Work

Her poem "My Father in a Foreign Country" offers one vision of survival:

After dinner, the coffee boy spoke to him.

He heard the sound, silver sliding on silver,

rose up blinking and dripping.



The ladies demanded satisfaction,

but my father said nothing:

the boy was so young,

the urn was so heavy,

the customs, as always,

so different from his own.

Reviews

The contest judge, poet Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski

Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...

, said the work was a

powerful and terrifying ironic vision of twentieth-century urban madness and the desire to survive it not by love, understanding, historic or mythic renewal by death, or even humor. But rather, by blinding wit, piercing irony and an uncompromising attention to truth.