Lauren Aliza Green

Biography

Lauren Aliza Green is the author of the novel The World After Alice (Viking, 2024) and the chapbook A Great Dark House (Poetry Society of America, 2023). She was featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for Media in 2024. 

Lauren Aliza Green

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POETRY / Fall 2024

I Take You Out

By Lauren Aliza Green

Among tall silver birches. Dogs yipping 
beyond the timberline. 
In my bag, a clementine for us to split. 
The river’s image trembles as you dip 
your foot in, raking the pebbles back and forth 
till silt rises to the surface.

POETRY / Fall 2024

Hansel and Gretel

By Lauren Aliza Green

With cries we woke the bear 
whose slumber was ancient, 
the bees whose frenzied paths 
were as methodical as a plowman’s. 
Between thickets we darted, 
our breath held like an amulet 
between our numbed hands.

POETRY / Fall 2024

My Mother’s Handwritten Grocery Lists

By Lauren Aliza Green

I refused to throw out 
a single one— 
eggs, milk, Wonder Bread— 
the tiny blue checks 
like a secret code,