Laura Grace Weldon is the author of a previous poetry collection titled Tending and a handbook of alternative education called Free Range Learning. She works as a book editor and lives with vast optimism on a small farm where she'd get more done if she didn't spend so much time reading library books, cooking weird things, and singing to livestock.

Other poems by Laura Grace Weldon in Verse Daily:
April 25, 2014:   "Awake As You Sleep" "Lying together, having made..."

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Other poems on the web by Laura Grace Weldon:
Four poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Ways of Speaking"
"Play is Political"
"Compost Happens"

Laura Grace Weldon's Website.

Laura Grace Weldon on Twitter.

About Blackbird:

"I admire and learn from Laura Grace Weldon's writing. Her poems blossom from an inherent curiosity and grow strong under her compassionate treatment of the subject matter. Such fresh images and heartfelt insights move me to be a better writer."
—Susan F. Glassmeyer

"When I take a few moments to read a Laura Grace Weldon poem, the sun comes out in my heart, and I know that the earth, for all its pain, is bathed in goodness."
—Alfred K. LaMotte

"The miraculous, the heartbreaking, the beautiful are always right in front of us, disguised as the daily messiness of our lives. I finished Blackbird and took a long winter walk through the park, seeing the world with fresher, keener eyes, and a feeling of gratitude."
—George Bilgere

"Laura Grace Weldon invites us to engage our third eye, to truly examine "light in a window / laundry flapping defiantly on the line." With words intimate and lush, she guides us to spaces we pass by, take for granted, overlook in our super-charged lives."
—Kari Gunter-Seymour