Lara Weibgen

Lara Weibgen is a poet and human services worker based in Brooklyn. In her writing and political work, she explores connections between misery, interpersonal violence, and systemic violence, with the aim of developing strategies for resisting and dismantling all three. In an earlier life she studied art history at Yale, where her research focused on underground art in the Soviet Union. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Nepantla, No, Dear, Asphodel, Toe Good Poetry, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Third Text, Critical Inquiry, October, and Art Journal, among other places.