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Spirit
of the Stairway
Lauren
LoNigro’s first book of poems
takes the reader through the tumult of a broken relationship and illustrates,
through metaphor, music, and good humor, how we are changed by our failed
connections with others. Her love of sound and image infuses her bleak subject
matter with optimism, and makes this collection a pleasure to read.
Sarah Kain Gutowski
For
a young poet, Lauren has already mastered aphorisms and has plenty of wisdom to
fill the form. She says “here is where confusion and consequence collide.”
After reading these poems, there is far less confusion and a great deal of
creative consequence. David
B. Axd
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND MENTOR
 LAUREN LONIGRO...
Lauren LoNigro was born on
August 31, 1987
. She lives in
Holbrook
,
New York
, with her mother, father and younger sister. While attending Sachem Central
school district, she played the drums and wrote some lyrics in a band. She
graduated from
Suffolk
County
Community College
with an associates degree in Liberal Arts and a new-found passion for poetry.
Then, she joined an independent study program, which inspired this book. She is
currently working as a hairdresser, and hopes to pursue a career in English.
 SARAH KAIN
GUTOWSKI...
Sarah Kain Gutowski, Lauren's mentor for this book, is
an Assistant Professor of English at
Suffolk
County
Community
College
on
Long Island
, where she teaches introductory writing and literature
classes. An alumna of
New
York
University
’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, her poems have
been published in the Threepenny Review,
the feminist journal So To Speak, The
Baltimore Review, and the online journal Best
Poem.
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