In addition to Sarah J. Sloat, we have Dorianne Laux serving as a guest blogger this week. Laux has been a supporter of Linebreak from way back, and we’re delighted to have her contributing this week.

Laux has published four books of poems. The fourth, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), won the Oregon Book Award. Eastern Washington University Press reprinted Awake, her first collection, and Superman: the Chapbook is being brought out by Red Dragonfly Press. Her awards include two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The NEA, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

After teaching at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Pacific University, Laux recently moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where she joins the faculty at North Carolina State University. She’s married to poet Joseph Millar.

I was first brought to Laux’s poetry by the poem “Vacation Sex.”  And it’s still one of my favorites.

Read more about her and her work.