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Reaching Marrakesh
Reaching Marrakesh

An impressive poetic debut, Reaching Marrakesh is an unforgettable collection of poetic enlightenment.

2020

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Samantha Lazar
Samantha Lazar

Stories

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Scrittura

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Let’s All Write The Next Banned Books

Poem — let’s all write the next banned books let the words connect our hearts to rights let all beings feel seen and understood even those who’d strike the match-ignite the fire, for power-hungry virtue eaters — have you known the pages by yourselves? did you once long to be a better reader, see…

Poetry

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Let’s All Write The Next Banned Books
Let’s All Write The Next Banned Books
Poetry

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The Howling Owl

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Longevity

Free Verse — My husband’s grandmother told me, after she released the last balloon on her one-hundred-year celebration, to never stop moving that’s the only part my son remembers: the balloons but she knew him two jets in the bluest sky dart over Lake Erie like tributes like honors two husbands two daughters five grandchildren eleven…

The Howling Owl

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Longevity
Longevity
The Howling Owl

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Don’t Tell Your Grandma: Stories and Poems

New Book Release! — I am so excited to announce my newest book, Don’t Tell Your Grandma, is out in the world! I revised my short collection, Soon We’re All Gone to Seed, to include many more poems and short stories, many of them born here on Medium. Content warning: This book contains images…

Books

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Don’t Tell Your Grandma: Stories and Poems
Don’t Tell Your Grandma: Stories and Poems
Books

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Scrittura

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Scrittura Writers’ Gathering

Introducing a series of virtual gatherings for writers of Scrittura (and elsewhere) — The Invitation by Samantha Lazar you’re invited to a poet’s party bring all your readers and words to a place for language gathering and think of all the noticing a silver glint within the eye a feather affair before they fly formation in the glowing sky — the beauty of the birds …

Poetry

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Scrittura Writers’ Gathering
Scrittura Writers’ Gathering
Poetry

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About the Author

Always learning teacher/writer/mama/wife/sister/daughter — Hi! My name is Samantha Rae Lazar. Thank you for taking the time to read my little auto-bio. I began writing on Medium in June 2019, and I am in love with this platform, even with all of its challenges and changes. …

Introduction

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About the Author
About the Author
Introduction

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Scrittura

·Sep 15

Wonderful Words

In Celebration of Scrittura’s Writers: August — We are very excited to announce August’s editorial picks. Once in a blue moon, something truly hits us as wonderful. In this case, it is your words. We hope you will enjoy reading these as much as we did.

Scrittura

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Wonderful Words
Wonderful Words
Scrittura

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Scribe

·Sep 13

Grief Releases Its Hold

Free Verse —

Poetry

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Grief Releases Its Hold
Grief Releases Its Hold
Poetry

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Sep 5

The Algorithm of Aging

I’ll probably regret writing this — My neck and spine are killing me. I have what looks like a snake in my lower back X-rays, and some cobra fangs threaten to sink from one vertebra to the next. Also, I think there’s a tiny robot following me around. Listening to my every thought. Eavesdropping on my…

Aging

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The Algorithm of Aging
The Algorithm of Aging
Aging

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Scrittura

·Aug 27

Suspense Before the Sentence

Prose poetry — What if we find out at the end of this shitshow, it was all a stage play — that they were Muppets dangling us face-first over the ravine — the river polluted by runoff from a papermill upstream — the groundwater and dowsing rods fashioned to find it — laced…

Prompt

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Suspense Before the Sentence
Suspense Before the Sentence
Prompt

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Aug 27

A Season of Shifting Priorities

Updates on my writing/teaching world — Welcome to Virgo season in North Carolina (otherwise known as Hell’s Front Porch). Many of us couldn’t bear the ninety-nine degrees in the shade with 70% humidity and no rain enough to be outside to water the tomatoes, so we’ve decided it’s time to move on. …

Writing

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A Season of Shifting Priorities
A Season of Shifting Priorities
Writing

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Samantha Lazar

Samantha Lazar

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Poetry, fiction, and essays in celebration of being a lover of life. https://linktr.ee/lazarsamantha

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