Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky is an Associate Professor of Writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is the author of ten books of poetry and prose: Memory (Semiotext(e)), Rome (W.W. Norton/Liveright) and Mother, The Shining, Animal, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and Awe, all out from Wave Books. Her first novel, Katie, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review, among other places. She is the editor of Essays (Essay Press) and co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's) and was a Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been educated at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Washington University. Find her on Substack here.
'I Had a Man,' by Dorothea Lasky
Joining faculty, students, and friends in the audience of the Lenfest Center for the Arts the evening of February 12, were several ghosts. Read more about this recent event featuring poet Forrest Gander.
Poetry Concentration Head and Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will publish her latest book, Memory, with Semiotext(e) on November 4, 2025.
Essays, edited by Associate Professor and Head of Poetry Dorothea Lasky, will be released by Essay Press.
Since 2018, Associate Professor of Writing Dorothea Lasky has invited a dazzling array of poets to the Lenfest Center for the Arts, including Ken Chen, CAConrad, Anaïs Duplan, Matthea Harvey, Douglas Kearney, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Fred Moten, Cecilia Pavón, Celina Su, Cecilia Vicuña, and Abigail Chabitnoy.
Although known primarily for her poetry, Associate Professor Dorothea Lasky will release two new prose works in October.