Laura Hershey: On the Life and Work of an American Master

Author: Laura Hershey 

Editors: Meg Day and Niki Herd

Co-Publishers: Gulf Coast, Pleiades Press, and Copper Nickel (2019)

Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. Her poems speak from the margins with the force of truth––eloquently, ferociously, and beautifully. This volume of the Unsung Masters Series, carefully curated by poets Meg Day and Niki Herd, reintroduces a wide selection of Hershey's writing to a new generation of readers. Also included are essays about her life and work by other poets and critics as well as a portfolio of photographs.