Apprentice to a Breathing Hand - Laynie Browne

Browne, Laynie: - Laynie Browne is the author of seventeen collections of poems, three novels, and a book of short fiction. Her recent books of poetry include Intaglio Daughters , Practice Has No Sequel , Letters Inscribed in Snow , and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists . She coedited I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women and edited A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel . Her work has appeared in publications including Conjunctions , A Public Space , New American Writing , Brooklyn Rail , and in anthologies including The Ecopoetry Anthology , The Reality Street Book of Sonnets , and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology . Honors include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award. She teaches creative writing and coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry at the University of Pennsylvania.