Lara Egger is the author of How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It (Juniper Prize winner, University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). She is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship and winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi prize. Egger's poems have appeared, or will soon appear, in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Bennington Review, Ninth Letter, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Adelaide, Australia, Egger now lives in Boston where she co-owns Estragon tapas bar. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Other poems by Lara Egger in Verse Daily:
September 18, 2022:   "Someday I'll Forgive Lara Egger" "You say you adore your dog..."
February 4, 2019:   "Because There's No Emoji for Memory" "Maybe I'll forget the blue hydrangeas..."

Books by Lara Egger:

Other poems on the web by Lara Egger:
"Sex Bolts and Mating Screws"
Two poems
"Weapons of Probable Destruction"
"Sweet Boy"
"S.O.S."
"There Isna€™t Much Poetry"

Lara Egger's Website.

Lara Egger on Twitter.

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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
November 8, 2022:   "The Silence of the Marriage" by Charles Rafferty
October 30, 2021:   "Kelpie" by Ashley Keyser
October 27, 2021:   "Practice Room" by Adam Tavel
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" by Martha Silano
October 25, 2021:   "Canto XXXVIII (after Buson & Issa)" by Ashley Keyser
November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 5, 2020:   "Poem for the Year Just Past" by David Dodd Lee
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" by Bruce Bond
May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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