About Laurie
In her airy, minimalist Chelsea apartment, Laurie Lewis has framed a yellowed piece of composition paper with neatly blocked print letters – one of her first poems in elementary school. It begins: Do Skyscrapers ever grow tired of holding themselves up high?/Do they ever shiver frosty nights with their tops against the sky?/Do they Feel lonely sometimes because they have grown so tall?...Do they ever wish they could lie down and never...