creative work

the face of lauren, a white person with brown hair, is obscured by fairy wings across their face.

photo by: usama alshaibi

books

hybrid/essay

poems

​​filmography

  • trip ziggurat (2025, 14:05) | film usama alshaibi | produced by lauren samblanet & adam sekuler
  • this has already happened (2025, 57 minutes) | film by usama alshaibi | creative consultant, lauren samblanet
  • soon (2022, 2:12 minutes) | film by usama alshaibi | written by usama alshaibi and lauren samblanet |screenings at: colorado dragon boat film festival (2023), denver film festival (2022), dispatches of war (2022), chicago underground film festival (2022), extremely shorts film festival (2022)

sound

performance

  • body presses: collaboration with skye hughes, performed at CU boulder’s black box theater, december 2013

visual art

press

interviews with makers

dance writing

​​readings:

  • east window journal of written and visual arts – release party | october 9, 2025, 7p | boulder, co at east window
  • jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics fall symposium reading | with stephanie heit & petra kuppers | boulder, co | october 21, 2024
  • denver book launch | with meca’ayo (tameca l coleman), lily duffy & jodie kirschner | denver, co | may 31, 2024
  • boulder book launch | with ashley howell bunn & violet mitchell | boulder, co | may 17, 2024
  • virtual book launch with christy davids, brittany felder, andré o. hoilette, han olliver, ebs sanders, oki sogumi, lindsey stark, julia kooi talen, and a.c. warner | zoom | april 20, 2024 
  • tannery bay book launch | with steven dunn, katie jean shinkle & paula rose | boulder, co | march 9, 2024
  • at the inkwell denver | with ashley howell bunn, jason masino & leonora simonovis | denver, co | november 5, 2022
  • anthology poetry collective virtual reading | november 14, 2021
  • bedfellows Magazine Presents: The Little Black Book! at the virtual 215 festival | may 12, 2021
  • art of storytelling | with yvette torres & hillary leftwich​ | denver, co | october 2019​
  • pro fana 4: pop up popsicle party for cool community | with steven dunn & levi bentley​ | denver, co | august 2019​
  • bedfellows launch party | philadelphia, pa | october 2018
  • secret arts society reading | longmont, co | march 2018
  • random name poetry series |  with alexa smith & chris gullo| philadelphia, pa | may 2017​
  • barn swallow poetry bbq | with zack arrington | ardmore, pa | may 2017​
  • mla offsite reading at the rotunda | philadelphia, pa | january 2017
  • jubilant thicket reading series | with lauren yates & sonia as ryan | philadelphia, pa | august 2016​
  • charmed instruments reading series | with ryan eckes  | philadelphia, pa | june 2016   
  • ​vassar review release party | poughkeepsie, ny | may 2016
  • “poetry in collaboration” panel at CU Literary Buffs Conference | boulder, co | february 2014
  • cu undergraduate reading | boulder, co | may 2013
  • bouldering poets reading series | boulder, co | august 2012

teaching/facilitation

  • creating with our bodies | a seven-part workshop | october & november 2025
  • creating with our bodies | a seven-part workshop | february & march 2025
  • jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics at naropa | fall symposium | session on disability poetics | october 21, 2024
  • guest workshop teacher in andré hoilette’s intermediate poetry workshop | lecture and workshop on epistolary poems | lighthouse writers workshop | may 2024
  • finding & nourishing pleasure in your creative practices workshop | march & april 2023
  • holding a candle to creative grief & fear| a six-part workshop | january & february 2023
  • building discernment and trust in our editing practices |  this workshop was offered in collaboration with alchemy author services and is part of the community coven series | june 13, 2022
  • finding & nourishing pleasure in your creative practices workshop | a five-part workshop | february & march 2022
  • the compassionate workshop | co-taught with andré hoilette | lighthouse writers workshop | december 5, 2021
  • finding & nourishing pleasure in your creative practice | a four-part workshop | november & december 2021
  • guest workshop teacher in andré hoilette’s intermediate poetry workshop | lecture and workshop on the work of renee gladman | lighthouse writers workshop | september 2021
  • trusting your gut: writing away from marketability & into authenticity and integrity | may 2021
  • guest workshop teacher in andré hoilette’s intermediate poetry workshop | lecture and workshop on the work of bhanu kapil | lighthouse writers workshop | april 2021