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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.

Vivisect, to be published by New Issues Press

Burned House with Swimming Pool, to be published by Dream Horse Press

Story Box (chapbook), Poetry West, 2008

“All Inexplicable Desire” to be published in American Literary Review

"Days Beginning to Lengthen” to be published in Kenyon Review

“The Warning” to be published in Crate

“Bon Voyage, Traveler, If You Leave Now and Hurry You’ll Arrive Before Tomorrow Splits in Half” and “Exposed” to be published in Portland Review

“Haircut,” “That Scrape Might Leave a Scar,” and “The Genius Puppet” to be published in PANK

“Garden Tools” to be published in Yalobusha Review

“Flood Sale” to be published in Hiram Poetry Review

 “The Apparent Suicide of My Former Husband” to be published in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts

“The Woman Who Sued Me” and “I Don’t Want You to Take Off My Clothes” to be published in Seattle Review

"Elegy Enumerating the Sins of Shopping” and “Graceless,” Many Mountains Moving 9(2008/2009): 177-181

“The Well-Intentioned,” Confrontation 102/103(2008/2009):183-184

“Regretful of Error 2,” Parthenon West Review 6(2008/2009): 152-153

“Come-Back Spell,” Laurel Review 42(2008); 60

“The Foreseeable Future,” Fence 11(2008): 83-84

“Dexterity,” Zone 3 23(2008): 94-95

“The Perspective of Distance,” Tuesday: An Art Project 2:2(Fall 2008)

“The Sign of the Cross,” Louisville Review 64(2008): 14-18

“A Question About Horses,” Rattle 14(2008): 123-124

“Envy This,” Crab Orchard Review 13(2008): 106-107

“Topography,” Cortland Review 40(2008)

“We Couldn’t Be True,” Hunger Mountain 12(2008): 154-158

“Field with No Horse In It,” “Coupled,” “Girls Who Love Horses,” and “The Lamed Mare” reprinted in Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses (Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008): 53-54, 59-61, 220-222, 301-304

“Autumn Uncovers the Tall of the Trees,” Salamander 13(2007/2008): 23

“Regretful of Error,” POOL 6(2007): 75

"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).

"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

  • American Poetry Journal Book Contest, Dream Horse Press, 2008
  • Poetry West Chapbook Contest, 2008
  • 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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