Lesley Dauer’s first book of poems, The Fragile City (Bluestem, 1996), won the Bluestem Award. Her poems have appeared American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000) and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets (New England, 2000). Garrison Keillor has twice read her work on “The Writer’s Almanac.” Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 14. [bio updated 2007]
