Poems & Prose Online
PROSE
Creative Essays
Brevity–“Midnight Baseball”
The Hunger–“Some Nights” & “Gone”
The Cincinnati Review–“Honeycomb“
Prairie Schooner–“Why to Run Racks”
(Named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016)
Ocean State Review–“As the Water Recedes”
Passages North: Writers on Writing–“Why to Kill Your Paradise”
Critical Essays & Interviews
32 Poems–“The Structure of Grief”
She Writes–“Sentimentality Be Damned: On Gratitude”
Prairie Schooner–“The Strange Spinning that is Grief” (Interview)
Speaking of Marvels–“In the Carnival of Breathing” (Interview)
I-70 Review Poetry Feature with Writer’s Statement (10 poems)
“Seeking the Visible World” At the Lepidopterist’s House”
(LFC interviews Chelsea Woodard)
RADIO & TV INTERVIEWS & AUDIO RECORDINGS
“My Lake” & “Self Portrait as Pyrocumulonimbus“(radio)
One Pause Poetry–“Shooting Geese” (audio only)
“U.P. Women Authors” (TV Interview, June 2015)
PBS / Media Meet with Bill Hart: U.P. Poets Charmi Keranen, Andrea Scarpino, Alison Swan, & I chat about poems, the UP, & the anthology HERE.
VIRTUAL READINGS
GMR Social Distance Reading Series (May 2020)
Black Lawrence Press Reading Series (May 2020)
Crucible Reading Series Online Reading (April 2020)
OmahaLitFest FacebookLive Reading (April 2020)
POEMS
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day–“Holocene Sonnet“
The Account--“Letters to Future Me“
AGNI–“Shelter: Michigan“
Adroit–“To Astronaut: On Fall“
Barrelhouse–“Synthetic Love“
Blackbird–“During the Final Scene” & “Why to Bury a Parrot” (2009) & “Leash Training” (2019)
Boxcar Poetry Review–“Elegy for a Skinwalker”
CDC Poetry Project–“December 17, 2017“
Connotations–“The Way The Plot,” “Relinquere,”
“Portrait as Facts of Energy Between Us”
cream city review–“Self-Portrait as Pyrocumulonimbus” & “Driving Up-Canyon”
DMQ Review–“Coffee”
Dialogist–“Love in the Language of Aviation,” “What Have You,” & “Blue Sky”
Drunken Boat–“Ode to Post Partum” & “Ode to Pain”
Ecotone–“The Poet & The Astronaut” & “Partial Eclipse, Hail“
f a i l b e t t e r–“Self-Portrait as Mountains Surrounding a Dry Lakebed”
Glass–“Astronaut: On Forget” & “In Love, Fridays are Best Spent Watching the Discovery Channel“
Gulf Coast--“Anxiety” winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz
Juked–“The Lapidary Speaks”
Kenyon Review–“Researchers Find Mice Pass On Trauma…”
& “Delayed Communique“
The Missouri Review–“Oubliette“
The Los Angeles Review–“Wind Turbine Erection: A Time Lapse Video“
Narrative–“Dear John–,” “Duplex,” & “Letter I Never Send”
National Endowment for the Arts Writers’ Corner–“Dear Morpheus”
Ninth Letter--“Careo” (Best of the Net)
Ocean State Review–“ACOA Questionnaire”
Pleiades–“Dear Mom–“
Poetry Daily--“Lake Prediction”
The Slowdown–“Cuffing Season” (first appeared in The Massachusetts Review)
storySouth–“To Be Honest“
Terrain--“Letter to the Aftermath“
Tupelo Quarterly–“Sensory Deprivation Floats” & “The Letter I Never Send“
Verse Daily–“Why to Save the World,” “The Letter I Never Send,” “Of Course,” “To the Astronaut: On Impact,” “Barefoot on the Pulpit,” “Careo,” “To Sleep,” “View from the High Road”
VINYL–“June: Tinea”
Vox Populi–“Duplex”
Waxwing–“To the Friend Who Sent Me Goodwill Forks as a Gift”
IN TRANSLATION
Nuovi Argomenti–“Holocene Sonnet,” “Delayed Communique to Astronaut,” and “Total Solar Eclipse” translated from English to Italian by Giorgia Meriggi
Breaking down the sonnet at UWGB in the classroom where I had my first poetry class fifteen years earlier.
Read HOST’s first (starred) review in Library Journal, which claims it’s “a stunning collection of poems, worth reading again and again.”
“The Strange Spinning that is…grief“–an interview with Prairie Schooner on constructing a first book and writing through and about complicated grief.
Read an interview between Lisa Fay and Roberto Rodriguez, Managing Editor for Sheepshead Review–the literary journal that LFC helped to revive during her undergraduate days at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Read reviews of Errata in Los Angeles Review of Books, Passages North, The Rumpus, Weave, and Kenyon Review Online.
Or peek inside In the Carnival of Breathing and read “Staying Afloat,” “Respiration,” “On Home,” “The Study of Lakes,” “To Sleep,” and “My Lake.”
*For a complete list of publications, including anthologies, print journals & magazines, please see Lisa Fay’s Curriculum Vitae.
If you have questions/comments or would like to order an inscribed copy of tether, Errata, or In the Carnival of Breathing, please contact Lisa Fay.