Lauren K. Watel

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Lauren K. Watel’s debut volume, Book of Potions, a collection of prose poetry, was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and will be published in fall 2024 by Sarabande Books. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared widely.

  • The cover to Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel

    Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel

    Lauren K. Watel
    Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 104 pages.Readers will find an unlikely beauty in Lauren K. Watel’s debut prizewinning collection, unlikely because of its engagement with…
  • A photograph of a broken piece of mosaic depicting the bottom half of a human figure

    Ruins

    November 2023
    Lauren K. Watel
    Photos courtesy of the author “Ruins give us this beautiful idea,” writes the author, “that you could make something, something wonderful and strange, as pleasing as you could, imbuing it with som…
  • A diorama featuring two towering skeletal figures with hundreds of skulls creating the structure

    Bones

    May 4, 2022 Lauren K. Watel
    The Capuchin Crypt, beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome. Credit: Dnalor 01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Surely I owe this particular take on Bone Baroque t…