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Lisa Lewis

Associate Professor
Director, Creative Writing Program
PhD, University of Houston


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Poetry Writing
  • Women's Studies
  • Contemporary Literature

Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught

  • Graduate Poetry Workshop
  • Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
  • Feminist Theories
  • Literature by Women

Selected Publications

 

Silent Treatment, Viking/Penguin, National Poetry Series, 1998.

The Unbeliever, University of Wisconsin Press, Brittingham Prize, 1994.

"Field with No Horse in It," "The Lamed Mare," "Girls Who Love Horses," and "Coupled" to be reprinted in Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (Yarroway Mountain Press).

"The Well-Intentioned" forthcoming in Confrontation.

"Regretful of Error" forthcoming in POOL.

"Dear Late Snowy Morning," The Journal 31 (2007): 5-6.

“Swanky, ”“American Dream,” and “My Horses and I,” Smartish Pace 14(2007): 92-98.

“Weekends Only,” Oklahoma Today 57.3(2007): 121.

“Coupled,” Many Mountains Moving 7(2006): 156-158

"Field with No Horse in It” reprinted in Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets 1951-1977 (Mercer University Press, 2006): 214-215.

“Cloudtime,” Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets 1951-1977 ( Mercer University Press, 2006): 216-217.

“Hating to Be Born: Forced Motherhood” (essay), Off Our Backs: the Feminist Newsjournal 36.2(2006): 51-53.

“Tourmaline,” 32 Poems 4(2006): 51-53.

“May Mowing Clover,” Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework ( University of Iowa Press, 2005): 86-88.

"Burned House with Swimming Pool," "Counting Change," and "Pilgrimage Ghazal," Florida Review 30.1 (2005): 28-33.

"The End of Anything," Michigan Quarterly Review 43 (2004).

"Story Box," The Journal 28 (2004).

"Travel Plans for Social Outcasts," Crab Orchard Review 9 (2004).

" Oklahoma" and "Stereotype," Eclectica 7.4 (2003). http://www.eclectica.org/v7n4/lewis.html

"The Young" reprinted in Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife (University of Iowa Press, 2003).

"Tracy and Joe," Stand Up Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2002).

"The Transformation," TriQuarterly 112 (2002).

"Media" and essay, My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery (Bedrock Books, 2001).

"The Auction," Spoon River Poetry Review 25 (2000).

"Change in Plain View," Phoebe 29 (2000).

"Only A Little" and "The Hawk," Gulf Coast 12 (2000).

"Redbud," American Poetry Review 29 (2000).

"February" and "Responsibility" reprinted in The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (Norton, 2000).

Honors & Offices

  • Faculty advisor to OSU Chapter of the National Organization for Women, Women’s Resource Center Student Alliance, and Creative Writers Association
  • Secretary of Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, 2004-2005.
  • Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002.

Recent Grants & Research Trips

  • Arts and Sciences Research Grant, 2004.

 


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