Dorothea Lasky Tweeting for Academy of American Poets

In honor of this month-long celebration, the Academy of American Poets will be hosting 30 poets for 30 days on our Twitter account. Throughout each day during National Poetry Month, one featured poet will post his or her daily insights.
On April 30, UDP poet Dorothea Lasky will be featured on the poets.org twitter

Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Laurel Review, Crowd, 6×6, the Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Octopus, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in New York City and researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.