NEWS
New York composer Shanan Estreicher’s choral setting of poems from Butterfly Nebula was performed by Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble on March 2, 2025 at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, West End Avenue and 87th Street, New York City. Here is a link to watch the performance of Lean, Fire. Find the composer’s notes here.
Marjorie Maddox interviews Laura for Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Find the interview and three new poems by Laura in Presence 2025–link to purchase a copy of the journal here.
Matthew Wickman interviews Laura about Butterfly Nebula on episode 98 of the BYU Faith & Imagination Podcast: “Deep Space, Deep Sea, and the Deep Heart of God.”
Madalyn Hansen interviews Laura for Inscape Journal–find the interview here.
Laura’s poem “Zebra” was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Erskine J. Poetry Prize and appeared in Smartish Pace Issue 31.
Jennifer Horne reviews Butterfly Nebula for the Alabama Writers’ Forum: “This is one of the best, most imaginative and surprising books I’ve read in a long while. Butterfly Nebula is—dare I say it?—a stellar collection.”
Al Rocheleau interviews Laura for the Florida State Poets Association’s publication Of Poets & Poetry July/ August issue. Find the interview online here; print copies of the issue are available here.
Esteban Rodriguez and Leonora Simonovis review Butterfly Nebula and interview Laura in this combination Review Interview for EcoTheo Review: “Butterfly Nebula is an incredible journey of self-discovery and connection with the many facets of the divine, many of which share this planet with us.”
Butterfly Nebula was awarded the Gold Medal in Poetry in the 2024 Illumination Book Awards.
Laura read poems from Butterfly Nebula in the Surfboard Room in Payson Library at Pepperdine University at a January 2024 event with poet Kate Bolton Bonnici; read the recap here.
D.S. Martin posts about Butterfly Nebula on his Kingdom Poets blog.
Oxbelly reveals the fellows of its 2023 retreat for writers in episodic, fiction and poetry in this Variety article. Laura participated as a poetry fellow.
Laura speaks about Butterfly Nebula and reads poems in an interview on Faculti.
Nick Ripatrazone reviews Butterfly Nebula in The Catholic Herald: “Hogan’s synthesis of the comic and contemplative…is uniquely her own, and Butterfly Nebula is the full arrival of a notable voice in Catholic poetry.”
Virginia Bell reviews Butterfly Nebula in RHINO Reviews: “You will find all the poems in Butterfly Nebula this layered, nuanced, uncanny, and plangent.”
Butterfly Nebula noted by Publishers Weekly as among forthcoming Fall 2023 poetry collections which employ unusual lenses to grapple with the complexities of the past and the powers of art in the modern age.
Laura’s poem “Lyrebird” appears in Scientific American here.
Rich Christman and Cody Schweickert interview Laura about poetry, the natural world, the writing process, paradox, and other topics on the Forefront Festival Podcast.
Rose Postma interviews Laura about her poem “Coalsack Nebula” on the Reformed Journal Podcast.
“Magma, Overturned,” an essay on contradictory states of suffering and renewal, featured in Ekstasis Magazine.
RECENT POETRY PUBLICATIONS
“Stallion”
Crab Creek Review
May 2025
“Rainbow Hummingbird Premise,” “Tactics for Breathing like St. Joan of Arc” and “Wind in Three Attitudes”
Presence Journal
Spring 2025
“Gordian”
Living City Magazine
March-April 2025
“Zebra”
Smartish Pace
Issue 31, Spring 2025
“X-ray” and “The Whale at Point Dume”
The Windhover
Spring 2025
“Utterance of Repair”
Fare Forward
January 2025
“Chilean Navel Orange on Top of Cup as Divine Word”
Psaltery & Lyre
December 2024
“Annunciation,” “Work of the Unknown Petitioner,” and online, “Shedding Season”
Wayfare
April 2024
“Talismans” and “Lemon Verbena at the Huntington”
Thin Places & Sacred Spaces
Amethyst Press, 2024
“We Are All God’s Poems”
We Are All God’s Poems
Unsolicited Press, 2024
“Julian, Sustained”
All Shall Be Well
Amethyst Press, 2023
“Lyrebird”
Scientific American
June 2023
“Longing as Dark Matter” and “Kepler Supernova Remnant”
Another Chicago Magazine
June 13, 2023
“Petri Dish”
Poetry International Online
April 2023
“Heart Nebula” and “Eagle Nebula”
Beyond the Frame
Diode Editions, 2023
“The Elysia Sea Slug”
Psaltery & Lyre
March 6, 2023
“Bronze Serpent,” “The Beginning of Wisdom,” and “Freight Car”
Earth & Altar
February and March 2023
“Prayer for Traversing the Eye”
The Inflectionist Review,
Issue 15, January 2023
“Coalsack Nebula” and “St. Teresa’s Pillow”
America Magazine
January 2023
“Between 50 and 51”
Sugar House Review
Vol. 14, Issue 2, Winter 2022
New poetry by Laura is forthcoming in Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith, Living City, Wayfare, and the anthology Without a Doubt (New York Quarterly), and a new essay is forthcoming in The Unmooring.