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In Data We Trust: Laura Felleman

Laura Felleman is, currently, an accountant at the University of Iowa.  Before that, she was a seminary professor.  Prior to that, she was a pastor.  She moved to Iowa City with her husband in 2016 and started writing poetry soon afterwards. She credits the Free Generative Writing Workshops with her growth as a poet.  To give back to the writing community, she organizes a writers open mic at the public library (or via Zoom during pandemics) and serves on the advisory council of Iowa City Poetry.  Her first chapbook, The Length of a Clenched Fist, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. 

Willingly spending their evening

in an old desacralized church

worshipping predictive data


White people

in straight rows

of white chairs


Reasonably discussing with

social scientists their

statistics, charts, and graphs


Before breaking to enjoy refreshments 

laid out for them on blue-plastic 

at the back of the denuded sanctuary


The sparkling cucumber water

was particularly delightful


 

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