The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (1997, BOA Editions)
Forward by Charles Simic
ISBN: 1-880238-47-0

“Laure-Anne Bossellar understands the complexities and the endless contradictions of our contemporary human predicament. Hers is an authentic poetic voice, one serious enough to be heard at the end of this long and brutal century. She writes wise poems about memory, poems whose art lies in their ability to make these memories ours too. What more could any one of us ask of poetry?”

               —Charles Simic, From the Foreward

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Small Gods of Grief (2001, BOA Editions)
Winner of the 2001 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award
ISBN: 1-929918-06-2

“With a paradoxical joining of muscle and delicacy, Laure-Anne Bosselaar crafts poems of great intelligence, music and spirit. Small Gods of Grief is powerful work in which Bosselaar displays all the poet's gifts. I return to these poems again and again.”

               —Stephen Dobyns

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A New Hunger (2007, Ausable Press)
ISBN: 978-1-931337-32-8

“There’s a time in the life of a poet as a maker of poems, if he or she is going to become more than just good, when the voice of one’s second self fully emerges, distilling and orchestrating the poet’s concerns, while simultaneously infusing them with an inner melody—a music that reaches and satisfies both ear and mind. This is to say that Laure-Anne Bosselaar, with her wonderful third book, A New Hunger, has become more than just good. It’s an occasion to mark and to celebrate.

“Jacques Maritain says that he’d like poetry ‘to turn self-awareness into a superior sort of simplicity,’ and this is what, page after page, Bosselaar does. From the long poem that begins the collection and the ambitious sonnet squence that follows it, to almost any of the shorter lyrics, she shows a masterful control of pacing and tone. And all of the poems feel necessary, embodied. She’s written a book of urgent meditations, which places her already good work on a new level. I love what she’s done.”

               —Stephen Dunn

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Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars
(Milkweed Editions)
Edited by Kurt Brown and Laure-Anne Bosselaar
ISBN: 1-57131-405-9

A splendid and generous collection of poems about hotels, motels, restaurants, and bars by an array of America’s best poets, including Marvin Bell, Ray Carver, James Dickey, Stephen Dobyns, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Richard Hugo, Galway Kinnell, Ted Kooser, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, Tom Lux, Heather McHugh, Susan Mitchell, W.S. Merwin, Molly Peacock, Michael Pettit, Charles Simic, David St. John, Gerald Stern, James Tate, Derek Walcott, C.K. Williams. Preface by Gerald Stern.

“Night Out is a clever homage to restless souls and creatures of the night....Many of the real gems are odes to transient hotels, seedy bars and all-night diners, dwelling on half-glimpsed trysts, clandestine groupings and the loneliness of late hours.”

               —New York Times Book Review

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Outsiders, Poems About Rebels Exiles and Renegades
(Milkweed Editions)
Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
ISBN: 1-57131-409-1

This collection of poems by more than 150 authors is a powerful montage, a complex portrait of the ways in which a society is fractured. Written from beyond the pale by those who don't belong to a majority or dominant group, these poems enter the world of the homeless man on the street, the body of Joan of Arc, the mind of a man who lives between two countries. They sing of loneliness, celebrate the stranger, and name those things—language, religion, skin color, age, gender, disease, betrayal, or simple distance—that separate us.

In Outsiders, Lucille Clifton, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Doty, Joy Harjo, Denis Johnson, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Simic, Gerald Stern, and more than 150 others address our aloneness in its many guises. Whatever separates us —language, religion, skin color, age, gender, disease, betrayal, or simple distance —you will find it addressed here. If you are curious about what's happening on the other side of the door, fence, or barbed wire, you're invited to sit at this feast.

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Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City
(Milkweed Editions)
Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
ISBN: 1-57131-410-5

Deep in the concrete canyons of even the largest cities, nature lurks. Its unpredictable energies animate not only squirrels and microorganisims, not only ginkgos, roots, and rivers, but the engines of human desire. Urban Nature captures the many faces of wildness in the city with poems by more than 130 emerging and recognized poets, including Czeslaw Milosz, Philip Levine, Mark Defoe, Linda Hogan, Ellen Bryant Voight, Derek Walcott, and Amy Clampitt.

Rather than just lamenting the loss of paradise, these poems celebrate nature's resiliency. They memorialize a salamander's last stand in a parking lot, link the cosmos to the consumer ethos ("The Pleiades / you could probably get downtown"), dream of horses galloping between skyscrapers, and track geological time in a pothole.

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Never Before: Poems About First Experiences
(Four Way Books)
Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
ISBN: 1-884800-60-2

First haircuts, first kisses, firstborn children. Never Before: Poems About First Experiences explores the ways in which the unknown becomes known. These poems evoke a sense of wonder at the world around us, and amazement at our ability to navigate through it, with all of the necessary bumps along the way. The voices of both established and emerging poets include Kim Addonizio, Stephen Dunn, Beth Ann Fennelly, Jennifer Grotz, Kimiko Hahn, Edward Hirsch, Meg Kearney, A. Van Jordan, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Thomas Lux, Tim Seibles, Meg Kearney and Gerald Stern, among many others. This is a diverse grouping and a generous and lively sampling work is showcased on the pages of this anthology.

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Herman de Coninck: The Plural of Happiness
(2006, Oberlin College Press, Field Translation Series)
Translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown
Forward by Charles Simic
ISBN: 0-932440-30-4

“Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience.

“Reading this book, I was amazed again and again by the skill of Bosselaar and Brown. They make it hard to imagine that these strange, original, and absolutely fabulous poems were written in any other language but English.”

               —Charles Simic, From the Foreward

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