Laurel Benjamin

The Pomegranate

Laurel Benjamin is the author of Flowers on a Train (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025), a finalist for the Cider Press Book Award and an Honorable Mention for the Small Harbor Publishing Laureate Prize.Forthcoming is Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat (Shanti Arts, 2026). A San Francisco Bay Area poet, she is active with the Women’s Poetry Salon, curates Ekphrastic Writers, and is a reader for Common Ground Review. Publications include: Pirene's Fountain, Lily Poetry Review, Taos Journal of Poetry. Her work has also been anthologized in Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press, 2025), among others. She invented a secret language with her brother.