Lauren Hilger (she/her) earned a BA from New York University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016) and Morality Play (Poetry Northwest Editions, 2022). Her work has appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Since 2016, she has hosted a monthly workshop and reading series at FRIEDAcommunity in Philadelphia. She serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens.
By Lauren Hilger
The place has carved out my sleep. I walk it every night.
On moving here, there were old sounds,
sputtering meter at the end of a cab ride,
or the back of the ferry, its engine like the
low-end keys of a baby grand,
like...
By Lauren Hilger
My doll had an exoskeleton
one could remove like a dress.
Inside, a baby with a ponytail and bow.
That doll had a thorax, it was easy.
You removed half of her,
a kind of leaf,
and there a bodied thing inside,
still in the process of...
