Description: An innovative redress of the long critical inattention to the power of humor in recent verse
Brief description: Carrie Conners is professor of English at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY. Her debut poetry collection, Luscious Struggle, was selected as a 2020 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, and her second poetry collection, Species of Least Concern, was named a finalist of the 2021 Main Street Rag Book Award. Her essays and poems have appeared in the Journal of Working-Class Studies, Bodega, Kestrel, Quiddity, RHINO, and Chautauqua, among other publications.
Review Quotes: Carrie Conners's Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry is a delight to read.--Kyle Smith "Studies in American Humor"