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Laura Da’ immerses readers in her poetic world

October 20, 2025

Laura Da’ immerses readers in her poetic world

Two posters are displayed side by side on a white wall. The left poster features black text on a white background reading: “Because a woman was disinherited by a disinterested witness in Turkey Ford, Oklahoma, because she married in the Indian way and zinc was found on her allotment.” A small credit line at the bottom cites “From Laura Da’ ‘Why Lazarus,’ in Seventy, University of Arizona Press, 2023.” The right poster is black with layered white text announcing the exhibition Laura Da’ — Why Lazarus, on vie
“Really, the spirit of the exhibition is taking each stanza of the poem and … allowing it to become almost a room,” said Da’, whose exhibit opened earlier this week and continues through Nov. 15. “So, the exhibition asks you to move through the poem slowly and to understand each stanza as a moment in time. And then some of the stanzas even become a tactile experience in a way that mimics what’s happening in the poem. … I almost think of it as the poem becoming its own ecosystem.”