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Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.

“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”


― Jane Bowles
Two Serious Ladies

 

Two Serious Ladies

Jul 21
Jul 21 6 Poems by Lily Gavazov

Lauren Spohrer

“I want to see more of this
version of you.”

Jul 21
Jul 21 4 Poems by Mary Craigg

Lauren Spohrer

these words are words that go together

May 3
May 3 The Most Famous Crime of Passion in Modern History by Emma Horwitz

Lauren Spohrer

Famous actors and a new unknown whose been crossing her legs back and forth on the talk show circuit

May 3
May 3 Poems 4 Twinks by Anna Dorn

Lauren Spohrer

not dumb but desp
2 decode these freaky oscillations

May 3
May 3 The Rapture! It’s Here! Take Cover! Save Yourse— by Carolene Kurien

Lauren Spohrer

They pluck the flesh strings and play celebratory
music lasting eight hundred days and seven hundred
and ninety-nine nights,

Apr 20
Apr 20 I Was Trying to Keep to Myself by Sara Duff

Lauren Spohrer

So it was two snakes, two women, and otherwise I wouldn’t say that I discovered anything that morning.

Apr 20
Apr 20 A Paper Crown for 236 Farragut Street by Claire Gallagher

Lauren Spohrer

I have never had an ear for scripture
no matter how many times it’s smoothed flat

Apr 20
Apr 20 For Example, Saints and the Shadows of Trees by Eva Heisler

Lauren Spohrer

Today she wears an ex-lover’s fleece.
Tomorrow she will wear an ex-lover’s fleece.

Apr 6
Apr 6 FOUR COLLAGES by Lauren Consuelo Tussing

Lauren Spohrer

A skintight
many-stranded
type of person

Apr 5
Apr 5 THREE POEMS by Beth Ayer

Lauren Spohrer

All gazelles are antelopes, while
All antelopes are not gazelles.

Apr 7
Apr 7 A CHILD FOR ALL SEASONS by Shivani Mutneja

Lauren Spohrer

In the last few days children from the apartment building have wandered to my door, they ring the doorbell, stammer when they see me and ask, “Aunty?”

Apr 7
Apr 7 LATE ‘74 ON THE PHONE by Linda Rosenkrantz

Lauren Spohrer

All my life I’ve wanted something in camel color.

Apr 28
Apr 28 One of Us by Farah Ahamed

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

“Yes, wonderful isn’t it?” Fatima said, smiling. Her teeth were tiny and evenly spaced.

Mar 20
Mar 20 Narcissus by Trisha Low

Two Serious Ladies
Poetry

Narcissus wants you to feel that he is really your friend.

Mar 15
Mar 15 Three Poems by Vanessa Couto Johnson

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

You might not understand why there is a bear on the billboard. But that is its school of business.

Jul 6
Jul 6 SUMP PUMP by Maria Anderson

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

As your marriage ages this is what you do. You ignore. You lie to yourself. You burn and you burn and you put yourself out with yoga and a Keurig and sumo squats.

Dec 17
Dec 17 Everything Is Erotic Therefore Everything Is Exhausting by Johanna Hedva

Lauren Spohrer
Art, Essay, Poetry

Anything wrapped in plastic wrap, and then unwrapping it.

Nov 27
Nov 27 Coffee Table Book Proposals: Five Monologues Meant To Be Read Aloud by Nell Boeschenstein

Two Serious Ladies
Essay

It’s a photograph of the bitter end to an extravagant evening.

Nov 16
Nov 16 Three Poems by Kirstin Allio

Lauren Spohrer
Poetry

I just lost a growth ring browsing online vitamins. Window shopping like a bird flying at the same glass a hundred times on a single morning, as dazed as a football player.

May 13
May 13 Getting Anything to Grow by Sonia Feigelson

Lauren Spohrer
Fiction

Her daughter cringed from the same thing she craved: the spare pleasure of appreciation.

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“Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.”
― Jane Bowles

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