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Laura Goldstein

Teaching Professor of English

Laura Goldstein has taught at Loyola since 2005, as a lecturer since 2012, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022. They regularly teach UCWR 110, UCLR 100 and English 317, and occasionally teach Advanced Composition and Tier-two Literature courses. A published poet, Laura's first book of poetry "loaded arc" was released in 2013, and their second book "awesome camera" in 2014. Laura has also published several chapbooks as well as poems, reviews and essays in literary magazines across the country. They are currently a member of Faculty Council and as the faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine as well as the Pakistani Students Association. They began their teaching career at the Center for Literacy in Philadelphia, and their life as a poet as part of the Poetry for the People Philadelphia chapter. They were the co-curator of the nationally celebrated reading series Red Rover Series in Chicago for over ten years and is an active poet in the Chicago community.

Teaching Philosophy:

I like to provide a firm and clear structure for each course, provide various activities for students to explore the material together as a community, including group discussion and written response, and creatively-based assessment methods. My rules for the classroom foster a sense of common ground and respect between students as I function as a facilitator and a guide within the landmarks of subject matter, critical discussion and writing assignments. Most of all, I encourage students to locate, develop and strengthen their own points of view, modes of writing, and ways of communicating.

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Education

  • MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • MA, Temple University
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Experimental Literature
  • Hybrid Forms

Publications/Research Listings

Full-Length Collections:

  • awesome camera, Make Now Press, 2014.

(Divya Victor reviews awesome camera: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blogger/70388/nikon-dont-you-see-im-burning-on-laura-goldsteins-awesome-camera)

  • loaded arc, Trembling Pillow Press, 2013.

(Anna Wilson reviews loaded arc: https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/loaded-arc-laura-goldsteins-mnemonic-poetics/)

 

Articles, Essays and Reviews:

  • Translation as Performance: Caroline Bergvall's Via, How2, Vol.3, Issue 3, Arizona State University, 2009: https://archive.howeverhow2archive.org/vol_3_no_3/bergvall/goldstein-translation-performance.html
  • “Toward a Wilder Review” (portfolio editor and preface author), Jacket2, University of Pennsylvania, 2015: https://jacket2.org/feature/toward-wilder-review
  • The Function, Performance Response Journal, 2.0, 2024: https://performanceresponsejournal.com/2024/the-function-a-response-by-laaura-goldstein
  • The Poli: theprecession.org and languages of the internet populace, Jacket2, University of Pennsylvania, 2011: https://jacket2.org/article/mobilizing-poli
  • “The sound of loose change”- dialects of dance in j’sun howard’s work in progress “righteous beauty”, Performance Response Journal 2.0, 2023: https://performanceresponsejournal.com/2023/the-sound-of-loose-change-dialects-of-dance-in-jsun-howards-work-in-progress-righteous-beauty-a-response-by-laaura-goldstein

Chapbooks:

  • safe wars / poet in hell, Damask Press, 2018: https://damaskpress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-laura-goldstein-s-safe-wars-poet-in-hell
  • phylum, Horse Less Press, 2013.
  • Inventory, Sona Books, 2012.
  • Let Her, Dancing Girl Press, 2012.
  • Facts of Light, Plumberries Press, 2010.
  • Day of Answers, Tir Aux Pigeons, 2009.
  • Ice in Intervals, Hex Press, 2008.

Literary Magazines:

from golden infection, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine (showcase of semifinalist winners of book contest), 2019: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blogger/70388/nikon-dont-you-see-im-burning-on-laura-goldsteins-awesome-camera

from “home is a collaboration” with Nikki Wallshlaeger, Obsidian Journal, Vol. 41, Issue 41, 2015: https://obsidianlit.org/from-home-is-a-collaboration-by-laura-goldstein-and-nikki-wallshlaeger-experiments-in-joy/

  • Poems from signals, Elderly Magazine, 2020: https://www.elderlymag.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Elderys-End-Capitalism-Now.pdf
  • Three Sections from golden infection, Dream Pop Press, 2020: https://www.dreampoppress.net/laura-goldstein/
  • Seeds, The Denver Quarterly, 2013.
  • awesome camera, Matter Monthly, 2013: https://mattermonthly.com/2013/05/01/awesome-camera/
  • Ticker, Horse Less Review, 2013: https://horselesspress.org/horse-less-review/horse-less-review-14/horse-less-review-14-laura-goldstein/
  • Pond, American Letters and Commentary, 2011.
  • Author Fail, Big Other, 2011: https://bigother.com/2011/08/08/authorfail-laura-goldstein/
  • Another Creature, Requited, 2009: https://libblogs.luc.edu/requited/2009/12/16/another-creature-that-had-life-in-it-but-no-longer-exists/
  • pay/phone, Seven Corners, 2010: https://sevencornerspoetry.blogspot.com/2010/06/featured-poet-laura-goldstein.html
  • Locusts, Our Skin and Holy Wars, Text/Sound (online), 2009.
  • Captain America, EAOGH (online), 2009.
  • https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/textsound.php

Podcasts

Make No Bones: https://www.makenobonespodcast.org/makenobones/laura-goldstein