Laura Mullen

alive to the shared work of meaning-making and attentive to the unseen and unsaid. "Mullen's shapes shift, disappear like the living but remain like lives...turn into new solids, solidarities of moving, hard-edged lyric social work...against loneliness…" (Fred Moten) "Mullen sets up a site of fluid exchange between text and reader, an inter-subjective process that inflects affective communication with a subversive sense of contingency..." (Amy Moorman Robbins) Work is forthcoming in Posit and On Occasion: Poetry for the People (Coach House). Mullen's poetry has been anthologized in collections from Norton, Wesleyan, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Surface, was a National Poetry Series selection, and her subsequent poetry collections and hybrid-genre works have been published by the University of California Press, Future Poem, and Otis / Seismicity among other presses: her ninth collection, EtC, was published by Solid Objects in 2023. A CD of Jason Eckardt's setting of her poem "Undersong" is available from Mode records. A MacDowell and Karolyi Foundation Fellow, a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival in Taipei, a Rona Jaffe Award recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Mullen holds degrees from the University of Iowa and U.C. Berkeley. Her collaboration with composer Nathan Davis—"a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed"—had its premiere in La Jolla, and has been performed at Notre Dame and Williams College. A collaboration (Verge) with the artist John David O'Brien is available, and her translation of Veronique Pittolo's Hero was published by Black Square Editions in 2018. Her 9th book, Find a recent selection of poems at the pandemic issue of ANGLES. Look out for her translation of Stephanie Chaillou's first book, published by Lavender Ink / Dialogos in 2025.

Reading with John Keene for FuturePoem / Segue on May 3 2025.

Laura Mullen reading from Murmur at Ventura's Art City (5x5 series)"The Evidence"