Review | The Always Broken Plates of Mountains,
by Rose McLarney
Laura Van Prooyen is the author of The Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press, 2006). Her second collection of poems, Resist, was a finalist for the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, RHINO, and The Southern Review. She is a recipient of grants from the American Association of University Women and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Van Prooyen received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Henry Ford Academy: Alameda School for Art + Design. 
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