Laurel Benjamin
POEMS
2024
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"I See Your Ovary, She Said," Moon City Review
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"Away From the Nest," "Sketchbook of Delft," Pirene's Fountain
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"A Woman Observes" Rise Up Review
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"Felting," Gyroscope Review
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"Crochet," Spillwords
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"Nine Months Post-October 7," Sheila-Na-Gig
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"Six Hostages," Voices Israel, Honorable Mention for the Reuben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition
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"The Year I Lose the Woods," "Psalm of the Mountain Lake," "Afternoon Elkhorn Slough," "The Secret of Coastal Habitat Restoration," The Nature of Our Times
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"Self-Portrait as a Tea Shop," Stone Poetry Quarterly
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"Hourglass" filling Station
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"When my husband on our wedding anniversary," Nixes Mate Review
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"Half a Donkey," Taos Journal of Poetry
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"Twilight Summer," Mocking Heart Review
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"Invisible Island," The Haibun Journal
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"Autobiography of Black and White," Thimble Literary Magazine
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"Ode for Walking Women," "Prayers for the Woman Under the Bridge," Deronda Review
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"Motel Room Without a Nightlight," As It Ought To Be Magazine
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"The Starling," Gone Lawn
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"A cat's paw has its own geography," Cider Press Review
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"In the Middle," "People Speak Yiddish in Bars All Over Berlin," "Elegy," Of the Book Literary Journal
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"The Bird Men," West Trestle Review
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"Brushed," Mom Egg Review
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"The Forceps of War," Rogue Agent
2023
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"What is the ratio," "hiking in a storm," Eunoia Review
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"I grow extra ovaries," Ekphrastic Review
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"In the last conversation with my father," Minyan Magazine
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"Anti-Love Poem," Eclectica Magazine
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"May on the Big Island," Banyan Review
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"We Bought Bagels with our cousins at the Hot Shop," The Inquisitive Eater
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"At the market after reading about the alien meteorite," Sheila-Na-Gig
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"Our Own Patois," Dodging the Rain
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"The Accidental Gardener," (5 Poems) Dodging the Rain
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"She springs from fissures," The Shore
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"A Different Wish," Bending Genres
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"In the Crux," Mocking Heart Review
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"Oracle for Normalites," Stone Poetry Quarterly
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"To Mark Doty on his discussion of his poem Brilliance," Nixes Mate Review
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"Watermelon of Forgiveness," Ekphrastic Review, Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2023
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"They Stop the Seasons," Sky Island Journal
2022
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"Tearformation," "They’ll never name a hurricane after me," Sheila-Na-Gig
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"Self Portrait with Flesh," Glassworks Magazine
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"Visionary," "While she blotted her lipstick," Lily Poetry Review Issue 8
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"Inside Bird," "Flowers on a Train," "Alexander Valley," Flapper Press, Best of the Net Nominee, and Interview
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"Ex-voto for Washerwomen," "The Nun’s Complaints," Ekphrastic Review, Winner, Lucky 7 Challenge
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"Instructions for Enjoying Jewish Food," Minyan Magazine
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"Negotiating for Drops of Water," Burningword Literary Journal
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"Ghazal to a Harbor Seal," Hare's Paw Literary Journal
2021
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I kept the night open," Thieving Magpie
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"The blue moss sings a song of its own," Adelaide Literary Magazine
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"Searched," One Art
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"Detained," "Never Forget," Black Fox Literary Magazine
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"Before Night Ends," South Florida Poetry Journal
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"Savage," Ekphrastic Review, Finalist, Bird Watching Challenge 2021
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"A Fuzzy Dot Like a Dandelion," Wild Roof Journal
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"The Gold Circumference," (fiction) Midway Journal
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"Fish," Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women's Poetry