Dara Laine is a poet and program evaluator based in Baltimore, originally from a hay farm in New Jersey. She returned to poetry after the sudden death of her father. Her work explores grief, memory, and the sacred ordinary through restrained lyricism, symbolic detail, and emotional clarity. Her poems are forthcoming in Pine Hills Review (“Claire’s 1997, 2003, 2025”), Right Hand Pointing (“The trees disappeared”), Thimble (print; “Morning Ritual”), and The Quarter(ly) (print; “Said your name once more”). More at www.daralaine.com.
Manuscript Conferences
July 4, 2025
