Laura Foley is the author, most recently, of It's This. Her next collection: Sledding the Valley of the Shadow (Fernwood Press) is forthcoming in 2024. Why I Never Finished My Dissertation received a starred Kirkus Review and an Eric Hoffer Award. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, The Common Good Books Poetry Prize, the Bisexual Book Award, Atlanta Review's Grand Prize and others. Her work has been included in many journals including: Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso, Poetry Society London, Atlanta Review, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope.

Other poems by Laura Foley in Verse Daily:
January 13, 2018:   "Where There Is Rejoicing, There Should Be Trembling" "A fracture of no consequence..."

Other poems on the web by Laura Foley:
Five poems
"The Once Invisible Garden"
"Shadows and Light"
"The Once Invisible Garden"
"What Stillness"
Two poems
"Then"
Two poems
"Black Belt"
"To See It"
Three poems
"The Offering"
Five poems
"What Stillness"
"Looking the Other Way"
"Learning by Heart"
"An Ordinary Sunday"

Laura Foley's Website.

About It's This:

"I have been an admirer of Laura Foley's incisive, accessible, and delightful work for many years now. Her poems ease into your consciousness and can seem deceptively simple at first. But before you know it, you're seeing the so-called ordinary world in striking new ways, your own life suddenly 'lit from inside.' The poems in It's This are perhaps best sipped slowly, but I couldn't stop myself from reading them all in one sitting, hungry for the wisdom and joy Laura Foley offers so effortlessly to her readers."
—James Crews

"I love these quiet poems. In It's This, with her keen eye and generous heart, Laura Foley slips beneath the rhythms of daily life to explore what might be lost: our religion, our balance, our identities, our beloveds. With these losses, Foley weaves in bright epiphanies of what might be found: the dream of being, our place in the shifting world, the willingness to say Yes and Yes and Yes, and the sweetness of what's left behind. On every page, transformation."
—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"Laura Foley's It's This is rich with thoughtful, moving poems. With a delicate touch, she evokes her Vermont home, her beloved wife and grandchildren, and above all, expresses an acute and tender empathy with animals, insects, all of nature. These are quiet, profound, and healing poems."
—Marge Piercy