Ann Lauterbach interviewed by Griffin Trustee Mark Doty

"I have a desire for people to understand horizontality as a very important way to live."
In this interview with Griffin Trustee Mark Doty, Ann Lauterbach reads and discusses her poem "Habitat" from Door, her 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted collection, published by Penguin Books.
Lauterbach speaks about slowness, trust, turning inwards, looking at art, and reclaiming a sense of the miraculous. She laments how "the interior space seems to be increasingly erased in our life" and offers "horizontality as a very important way to live."
Ann Lauterbach will grace the stage of Koerner Hall on June 5 in Toronto, along with our other shortlisted finalists. Tickets for the 2024 Readings are now on sale: www.rcmusic.com/events-and-pe...