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Lisa Low

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POEMS

Selected poems online:

Poetry, from “People Who Look Like You,” “Ars Poetica [After not showing in a poem],” and “Palinode”

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

Poetry,

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

Poems also appear in Cream City Review, Bat City Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square Review

ONLINE

Puerto del Sol, “The Other Asian Girl” and “My Mother’s Body in America”

Nashville Review, “Extraction”

Anomaly, “The Way White People Speak”

Vinyl, "Girl I Want to be at the Grocery Store" 

The Journal, "Before Ying Kit Became Ian, Age 8" and "The Other Boys" 

The Collagist, “Child Inside a Heart” and "Your First Grade Teacher Insists Your Name is Lai Fong, Not Lai Yee" 

Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, “Apartment,” “Photograph of My Grandmother, Sunbathing,” “The Year I Was Born, My Grandfather Died,” and “Child Inside a Heart”

PROSE

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

Poetry Foundation, “Reorienting the Audience through Ars Poetica”

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

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 Massachusetts Review, 10 Questions for Lisa Low

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