Sanctuary, Vermont
from Orison Books
“Evoking a century-plus of the doings in one rural Vermont town, where “every day has at least one marvelous thing,” Wisniewski’s debut builds to a novelistic sense of place and plenitude with shades of Thornton Wilder or Edgar Lee Masters.”
— New York Times Book Review
Winner of the 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize chosen by The New England Poetry Club.
Winner of the 2022 Foreword Reviews INDIES
Bronze Award for Poetry
Selected for the 2020 Orison Poetry Prize by poet Katie Ford:
“This is a book of lost voices, of selfless persona poems shot through with a lyric control so unfaltering it seems Laura Budofsky Wisniewski has written an impossible book. What a rarity, what a necessity for the oppressed not to be generalized but to speak with intricately subtle minds…”
About Laura
Laura is the author of Sanctuary, Vermont (2022, Orison Books) and How to Prepare Bear (2019, Redbird Chapbooks). Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Narrative Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Image, and other journals.
Laura was a finalist in the 2022 Narrative Poetry Prize, runner up in the 2021 Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize and winner of the 2020 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry International Prize, and the 2014 Passager Poetry Prize.
Laura, who is 71, lives quietly in a small town in Vermont.