O Town Heights :: Dolly Lemke
/This is our house--This is our pillar
the only cottage in the depot
naturally the light is downstairs
This is ours
THE BOOK
O Town Heights mashes-up text from Our Town, Wuthering Heights, and The Fountainhead. Poem by Dolly Lemke with letterpress covers designed by Jeff Peterson.
THE AUTHOR
Dolly Lemke was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She currently lives and works in Chicago where she received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of three chapbooks, O Town Heights (DoubleCross Press, 2012), I’m so into you (plumberries press, 2013), and Wyoming (dancing girl press, 2018). She founded and co-curated The Dollhouse Reading Series from 2011-2016 and also co-founded the online poetry journal PINWHEEL with Stephen Danos where she currently serves as Poetry Editor. You can find her online at dollylemke.tumblr.com.