About Lisa Lewis and New Letters

Today's poem is "Poem Concerning Collapse and Forbearance"

from New Letters

Lisa Lewis has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Taxonomy of the Missing (WordWorks, 2018) and a chapbook, The Borrowing Days (Emrys, 2021). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in National Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Isele, Diode, and elsewhere. She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as editor of the Cimarron Review.
Other poems by Lisa Lewis in Verse Daily:
January 30, 2023: "Feminist Wife" "My secret was I was trying to be a feminist..."
June 2, 2011: "Coupled" "The neck's crest bridges to the pricked ears...."
October 7, 2010: "The Transformation" "It had been afternoon as long as I could bear...."
September 17, 2010: "Mystes" "A calm arrested the vibrato of tunnels...."
Books by Lisa Lewis:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Lewis:
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Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Diagnostic"
"A Question About Horses"
"A Threat in May"
"The Borrowing Days"
"Masterpiece"
"Topography"
"Jesus Devil Curve"
Lisa Lewis on Twitter.
About New Letters:

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Other poems from New Letters in Verse Daily:
March 23, 2023: "Poem Ending with a Line from Robinson Jeffers" by Campbell McGrath
March 13, 2023: "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
January 10, 2022: "Stay (I Missed You)" by Jennifer (JP) Perrine
December 21, 2021: "Stay (I Missed You)" by Rebecca Foust
October 12, 2020: "Glossary of Terms" by Suzanne Manizza Roszak
October 9, 2020: "Clown Life" by John Blair
May 20, 2020: "Vessel, Vassal" by Karen Kovacik
May 19, 2020: "Indianity" by Diane Glancy
March 23, 2020: "Elegy for Michelle Beginning with One of Her Last Lines" by Aliki Barnstone
March 22, 2020: "Armed Neighbor" by Carl Dennis
November 9, 2019: "'Old Ghost Appears Before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat'" by Roy Bentley
November 8, 2019: "Alaska" by Dion O'Reilly
November 7, 2019: "Three Poems" by Gary Young
May 16, 2019: "What Jazz Isn't" Richard Terrill
May 15, 2019: "'Io Sano Una Bella Luna'" David Thoreen
May 14, 2019: "Nothing Will Warn You" Stephen Dunn
April 18, 2019: "Murmurations" Allison Funk
April 17, 2019: "Ce qu'il reste à vivre" Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
February 21, 2015: "Material" by Jessica Anne Cuello
February 18, 2015: "Lost" by Eric Pankey
February 17, 2015: "Secondary" by Albert Goldbarth
December 18, 2014: "Valentine" by Joseph Millar
November 26, 2014: "Winter Wind" by Stephen Dobyns
June 19, 2013: "Incantations to Snow" by Lawrence Revard
November 24, 2012: "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" by Peter Cooley
November 11, 2011: "Contra Chekhov" by Michael Salcman
January 27, 2010: "Tails" by Maxine Kumin
October 4, 2008: "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White

October 3, 2008: Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang
September 29, 2008: "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth
December 13, 2007: "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
December 11, 2007: "Uncles (Play)" by Kevin Young
November 24, 2007: "Watermelon" by Alice Friman
June 9, 2007: "Aware of Angels" by Mark Jarman
February 20, 2007: "The Deer" by Michael Chitwood
February 17, 2007: "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006: "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
May 29, 2006: "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
November 23, 2005: "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005: "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005: "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005: "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005: "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004: "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004: "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004: "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004: "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
May 16, 2004: "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004: "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003: "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003: "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003: "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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