June 9th Speaker: Laurie Kolp

Laurie Kolp is an award-winning poet with numerous publications, some of which include Poets & Artists, Writer’s Digest, Diane Lockward’s The Crafty Poet, cho, Miller’s Pond, The Fib Review; forthcoming in Pirene’s Fountain and Blue Fifth Review.

 Laurie is often inspired by nature, and her photography has been featured in Poetic PinUp Review and graced the cover of MiCrow8: Winter 2013. She is part of the online communities dVerse Poets and Poetry Jam, and the vice-president of Texas Gulf Coast Writers.

Laurie lives in Southeast Texas with her husband, three kids and two dogs. To learn more, please visit her website http://lauriekolp.com, or her blogs http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com and http://lkkolp.wordpress.com.

Her first full-length poetry collection, Upon the Blue Couch, was published by Winter Goose Publishing in April 2014, and will be available (and personalized) at the meeting.