Reading Series: February 28: Laynie Browne, Matthew Zapruder, and Lynn Emanuel
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Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher, and editor. She is the author of eighteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Browne’s recent books of poetry include: Apprentice to a Breathing Hand (Omnidawn, 2025) Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar 2023). She co-edited the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet’s Novel (Nightboat). Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times and in anthologies including The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, UK), and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Catalan. Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of the poetry collections I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024), and How to Continue (The Economy Press, 2025). His previous books also include Why Poetry (Ecco/Harper Collins) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. He teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California, and plays music with The Figments and We Are Leaves. You can find him on Substack or at matthewzapruder.com.
Lynn Emanuel is the author of six books of poetry. Her selected poems, The Nerve of It, was awarded the Lenore Marshall Award by The Academy of American Poets. She has been awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Poetry Series Award, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at various venues including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Warren Wilson Program. Her poetry has been published and reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, LA Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly and has been translated into Russian, Spanish, Mongolian, French, and Urdu.
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