Brad Listi talks with Lauren Haldeman, author of the poetry collection INSTEAD OF DYING (Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University). It is the winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Haldeman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her other books include CALENDAY (Rescue Press, 2014) and THE ECCENTRICITY IS ZERO (Digraph Press, 2014). A finalist for the Walt Whitman Award and National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Tin House, Fence, the Iowa Review, and the Rumpus.

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