Author: Kyra Lawler

  • le lit 

    le lit 

    For FRAMED! Kyra Lawler gives us a poem through the sleepy, warm and comfortable eyes of two women tucked up in bed.

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  • while i watch love island

    while i watch love island

    TRUE STORY: the promised escapism of reality dating television fails to let sad, cold, broke woman stop thinking about Bad Things™ so she wrote a poem about it. Join Kyra as they watch yet another seemingly endless season of Love Island while everything starts to crumble around them.

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  • Shorts Films by Tate Fountain

    Shorts Films by Tate Fountain

    In their first foray into reviewing for bad apple, Kyra Lawler has a cinematic experience. With Tate Fountain’s debut poetry collection ‘Short Films’ in hand, they collect a bouquet of film scripts, letters, notes and vignettes to devour.

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  • Halloween

    Halloween

    Ill-fitting costumes and tight-fitting dresses. Pumpkins and apples. Rejection, more rejection, and finally, self-acceptance. Take a peek into three of Kyra’s past selves as she navigates Halloween in a fat body.

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  • awake

    awake

    Find love in all the nooks and crannies of your friendships. Soak in that love like it’s the first rays of sun after an especially long and cold winter.

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  • dreamless night

    dreamless night

    Kyra Lawler draws inspiration from Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night” and searches for a slice of cliché among the vastness of the universe.

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