The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose
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Prose Poems
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Laine, Dara
(2026)
"Keeping Time by Crickets,"
The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose: Vol. 1:
Iss.
16, Article 15.
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https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lindenwood-review/vol1/iss16/15
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Dara Laine (she/her) is a poet and member of the LGBTQ+ and disabled communities, based in Baltimore and originally from a hay farm in New Jersey. She returned to poetry after the sudden death of her father. Her work explores grief, memory, and the sacred ordinary through restrained lyricism and symbolic detail, drawing from rituals, hummingbirds, and fridge notes. Influenced by Jane Kenyon, Marie Howe, and Jane Hirshfield, she writes into quiet emotional space and spiritual undercurrents. A July 2025 30/30 Project poet with Tupelo Press, Dara is completing two collections: Unpicked and Numerology. This is her first publication.