Poet
Lara Hamidi-Ismert
Lara Hamidi-Ismert has lived in Prescott since 2019 with her favorite humans and hairballs. Currently she works as a mathematician but is making more time to surrender to her creative compulsions. She is beyond thrilled to share her work in Threshold and would like to thank her poetry mentor, MM, for helping her illuminate the dark side of the moon.
Invasive Species
Kansas’ climate is not like Pluto’s, nor Jupiter’s. The summer air is hot and thick and wet, it coats the corn fields in purple sweat, cries beneath a red-eye sun. Then winter comes enthusiastically and...
Poetry / PoemWhat’s Left of My Father
I cut a circle from the chest
Poetry / PoemSleep No More
Sleep No More is performed three times a night, through dance, without words.
Poetry / PoemIcarus
Icarus is a blue supergiant that was discovered in 2018 and is the most distant individual star ever detected.
Poetry / Poem