Laynie Browne

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Laynie Browne
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Laynie Browne reading at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Born(1966-06-21)21 June 1966
Los Angeles, USA
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationMFA
Alma materBrown University
GenrePoetry

Laynie Browne (born 1966, Los Angeles) is an American poet. Her work explores notions of silence and the invisible, through the re-contextualization of poetic forms, such as sonnets (Daily Sonnets), tales (The Scented Fox), letters (The Desires of Letters), psalms (Lost Parkour Ps(alms)) and others.

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Life

Laynie Browne received her M.F.A. from Brown University in 1990. She was a member of the Subtext collective, Seattle, and The Ear Inn in New York City.

Browne has worked as an arts educator in public K–12 schools, with a focus on poetry. [1] She has taught at University of Washington, Mills College, [2] and at the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. [3] Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. [4] Browne also serves as a mentor in the Afghan Women's Writing Project. [5]

Her work has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Conjunctions, Fence, Monkey Puzzle, Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology, Poet's Choice. She is co-editor of I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012) and is currently editing an anthology of original essays on the Poet's Novel. [6] Browne's other current project, You Envelop Me, utilizes the elegy to investigate birth and loss within the context of the mourning process. "Attempts to illuminate once-hidden meanings are points of perforation, punctures in the fabric of writing," says Browne. "I consider form as a container, lens, garment, dwelling, and means of locomotion." [7]

She lives in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. [8] [9] As of 2023, she teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. [10]

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