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Lauren Davis

Remember, Revive, Record.

Taylor Lauren Davis is a Black American poet from Memphis, Tennessee.

Her work explores themes of revival and holds sacred the memory which it requires. She invites her audience to sit in the space where this memory resides and consider how the act of remembering yesterday transforms our today. Davis’s work has appeared in Button Poetry, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She is an attorney based in Washington, D.C.

I write for the reader who seeks to explore their own interior. This reader meets themselves without judgment (or is learning to do so) and welcomes the inspection my poetry seeks to initiate.

I write toward renewal.

My writing lives in the quiet that unfolds during prayer; it sits at the tables once dressed for Sunday dinner, it carries the stories we inherit just as the body carries blood: sacred and necessary. I am interested in what stillness teaches. I am interested in the memories that shape us. I seek the kind of belief that transforms.

Much of my work inspects the histories that are passed down, observes how memory animates a moment, and considers how the very act of remembering returns us to the self made new. In this way, my work acts as both a record and an invitation to restore was what and transform what is.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. - Romans 12:2

A Prayer For Balance

I approach this table to answer the call of my need, Not the lure of my emptiness. I understand holiness as balance.

As the bridge between more and enough Soothie this hunger.

And by the bend of this muscle, I will find Your way Cure this thirst.

And with the clarity of an open, unyielding sky, I will find Your way Nourish my body so that I may know life, and life more abundantly, Fatten my soul, an dmy life will be harvest, For all those who are hungry.