Lauren Green (’17 CC) Wins Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for 'A Great Dark House'

By
Rebecca Pinwei Tseng
October 01, 2021

A Great Dark House, a chapbook by Undergraduate Writing alumna Lauren Green (’17 CC), was recently selected as a winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.

Green’s debut chapbook “explores the strangeness of loss, the passage of time, the way nature roils the silt of the soul.” The poems find footing in the remote landscape of the self, then expand outward towards birdsong and the lights on the horizon. The speaker looks up; life continuously unfurls.

Held yearly since 2003, the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Program publishes winning chapbooks from emerging writers who have not yet published a full-length collection. Manuscripts are between 20 to 30 pages, and winners are awarded $1000 and publication. This year’s judges were former Adjunct Assistant Professors Joshua Bennett and Monica Youn.

Lauren Green’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in ConjunctionsGlimmer TrainAmerican Short FictionNinth Letter, and Joyland, among other publications. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and is currently the writer-in-residence at the Carson McCullers Center in Georgia.