The Quorum Poets Present Lauren Slaughter and Open Mic

Join The Quorum Poets at True Story Brewing Company as we present featured poet Lauren Goodwin Slaughter! Our monthly open mic follows Lauren’s set. Open mic sign-up opens at 6:45 PM.

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her writing, including a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She is the author of the poetry collections, Spectacle (2022) and a lesson in smallness (2015) and editor of the forthcoming anthology, The World We See; Women Poets on Neurodivergence (Texas Review Press, 2027). Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in Harvard Review, North American Review, Image, and Pleiades among many other journals. She is a member of the board of directors of the Alabama Writers Forum and a Professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is on the creative writing faculty and serves as Editor-in-Chief of NELLE, a literary journal focused on women and their experiences.

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