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Lisa Low

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SELECTED POEMS


ONLINE

TriQuarterly, from “People Who Look Like You,” [The problem of being with a white man belongs only to you"]

Poetry, from “People Who Look Like You,” “[You track the proliferation of white male/Asian female couples on the street]” + 4 more

Ecotone, “White Spaces,” selected for Pushcart Prize XLVII, and “The day after my first beets”

Poetry, “Ars Poetica [After not showing in a poem]” and “Palinode”

Puerto del Sol, “The Other Asian Girl”

Redivider, “Mail-Order Groom,” runner-up in Redivider’s 2020 Beacon Street Prize in poetry

IN PRINT

American Poetry Review, “Appearances”

The Southern Review, “Crown for the Girl Inside”

The Massachusetts Review, “Ars Poetica [A few years ago, I placed]”

The Iowa Review, “Party Anxiety”

Crazyhorse, “Feedback Loop” and “Photoshop”

Colorado Review, “Ars Poetica [For years I used the body]”

Poetry Northwest, “Forty Years”

Copper Nickel, “Cut”

Boulevard, “Ode to Maxi Pads” and “Pantoum”

Washington Square Review, "If Memory Is a House" and "Dollhouse”

NONFICTION

Gulf Coast, “How to Apologize,” winner of the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize

CRAFT ESSAYS

The Cincinnati Review, “On Envy and Time: A Craft Essay”

Poetry Foundation, “Reorienting the Audience through Ars Poetica”

Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, “Proleptic Strategies in Race-Based Essays: Jordan K. Thomas, Rita Banerjee, and Durga Chew-Bose”

The Cincinnati Review blog, “On Taking Breaks from Writing,” “Building Writing Community in the Digital Age,” “Making a Better Submission Spreadsheet” + more editing work at The Cincinnati Review

FEATURES

The Slowdown podcast with Maggie Smith, “Palinode”

The Massachusetts Review, 10 Questions for Lisa Low

Poetry Magazine podcast, Su Cho in conversation with Marianne Chan and Lisa Low