Lisa Ampleman is the author of two books of poetry, Romances (LSU Press, 2020), and Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013), and a chapbook, I've Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State UP, 2012). Recipient of a 2019-21 Hermitage Artist Retreat fellowship, she lives in Cincinnati, where she is the managing editor of The Cincinnati Review and poetry series editor at Acre Books.

Other poems by Lisa Ampleman in Verse Daily:
March 14, 2014:   "Murmuration" "A row of resting birds makes visible a distant power line..."
November 22, 2012:   "My Only Deftness" "You say that if you field-dress the turkey, steam rises..."

Books by Lisa Ampleman:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Ampleman:
Two poems
from poem "Courtly Love (for Courtney Love)"
"Dead Ringer"

Lisa Ampleman's Website.

Lisa Ampleman on Twitter.

About Romances:

"In these wry, warm, learned, and formally dexterous poems, we find ourselves caught up in love—its twists, its turns, its fickleness, its fevers, its griefs, its unexpected happy endings. There's a shock of pleasure on every page of this delightful book; as Ampleman asks, '[W]hat else do you expect from Love?'"
—Melissa Range

"Ampleman's poems are the product of an extraordinary DNA splicing, combining the genetic material of Rilke, Dorothy Parker, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and—as evidenced in her collection's masterful showpiece—Courtney Love. Ampleman merges formal elegance with punk sass and offers both a witty debunking of romantic love in all of its manifestations and heartfelt expressions of ardor. There's consummate ingeniousness here—and formidable promise"
—David Wojahn