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fromThe New Yorker
5 months agoPatricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop
Patricia Lockwood reads Elizabeth Bishop’s 'In the Waiting Room' and her own 'Love Poem Like We Used to Write It' and holds major literary prizes.
Patricia Lockwood is probably referred to as the voice of her generation more frequently than any other late-millennial author. Initially best-known for her poetry, she is also often referred to as Twitter's poet laureate. Lockwood rose to fame by tweeting surreal sexts, the most well-known of which reads, "I am a Dan Brown novel and you do me in my plot-hole." Her breakout memoir, Priestdaddy,