Poet & Educator
Ghost Hour released December 2020
Books
Cover Photograph: Thought Series #904, 1993, Bill Jacobson
Ghost Hour
Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, the poems in Ghost Hour emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood―the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. As in her previous poetry, Laura Cronk writes personally, intimately, yet never without profound consideration of onslaught of contemporary violence, which we must love in spite of and rage against.
Cover Image: “Baby Blue,” Daneille Nelson Mourning
Having Been an Accomplice
Winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
In this arresting debut, love poems and interior monologues are reinvented in a time of war. Within them, Laura Cronk writes, “I want to blow up the Law with Language, having run my tongue around my mouth ten thousand times. Instead of not speaking, I want to speak.”
Laura Cronk is the author of two books of poems, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice from Persea Books. She is the chair of undergraduate writing at The New School in New York City where she teaches courses on pedagogy and creative practice. She coordinates programs for writers such as the Summer Writers Colony and The Riggio Writing & Democracy program. Originally from Indiana, she currently lives with her family in New Jersey.
Events
4/16/22
Nature Inspired Prose and Poetry Under the Pink Full Moon
7PM
The Elixir Bar
117 Crosby St
New York, NY
Join us under the energy of the Pink full moon in Libra for an evening of prose and poetry with local writers and poets. This is a community event designed to bring together our community to support the arts and artists. With Jess Barish and Mary Binninger.
Cost: $5
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Selected Work
Poems
Today: What Is Sexy & Mythological Rape Painting, Court Green
Four Poems, Literary Hub
Three Poems, BIG OTHER
The American Experiment, Public Seminar
Three Poems, Stat O Rec
Jersey City Poems, Seventh Wave
Thirst, Academy of American Poets
Two Poems, The Curator
Vegetarian Poem, The Literary Review
Five Poems, Locus Point
Essays
Playlist Inspired By Ghost Hour, Largehearted Boy
The Work of Home: Cleaning, Writing, and Communing with Ghosts, Literary Hub
On Writing, Parenthood, and Trying to Stay a Little Wild, Literary Hub
Raw Milk, Gawker
Reviews
Ghost Hour
Having Been an Accomplice
Interviews
Praise
“The poems in Ghost Hour think nimbly and with all five senses about ancestry, whiteness, desire, and playing —what is both ludic but also harmful in what we pretend.”
“Ghost Hour is brilliant.”
“This is a collection of poems for grown-ups, a fierce coming of age, a coming into - with heart, humor, and humility - one’s own.”
“Laura Cronk explores the vicissitudes and pleasures of the relational and often domestic beloved. ”
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