Poetry by Mercedes Lawry.
Download “And You Cannot Prepare” by Mercedes Lawry.
Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for over thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Rhino, Seattle Review, Nimrod, and Salamander. She has received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust, and Richard Hugo House. She has also published fiction as well as poems and stories for children. Her chapbook, There Are Crows in My Blood, was published by Pudding House Press in 2007, and another chapbook, Happy Darkness, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.