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Click here to listen to Lauren Zuniga performing "Conversations with Cardboard Barack"

Click here to listen to Lauren Zuniga performing "4 Parts Soil 1 Part Birth"



For the last nine years, Lauren Zuniga has been writing and performing poetry in hopes that her words will be “filled with living substance.” She uses words to create her life. She loves this process of pinning down the gritty and splendid parts of being human and putting them in a glass case for exhibit. She loves even more the joy of throwing those words out into a willing audience and watching them land like monarchs on their cheeks. Sometimes she gets caught up in imagery. She eats a lot of sandwiches. She break dances and plays checkers with the two most hilarious kids on the planet. She likes to do these funny things called slams, where she displays her insides and then judges assign a numerical value to them. She was on the 2007 and 2008 Oklahoma City Poetry Slam Team and was Oklahoma City’s 2008 Grand Slam Champion. She has published her poetry in such places as The Faulking Truth, Broadside, Lamplighter Review, and Nonzine. She was also included in the recent anthology, The Good Things About America, published by Write Bloody and available at writebloody.com.

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