Lisa Fishman

Poetry

Lisa Fishman is the author of three books of poetry: The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta Press, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002); and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1998). She has a chapbook, KabbaLoom, forthcoming on Wyrd Press and two new book-length collections of poetry under review. Lisa’s poetry has been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), We the Creatures (Dream Horse Press, 2004), Shade (Four Way Books, 2007), and Not For Mother’s Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-getting and Child-rearing (Fence Books, 2007). Her poems appear in such magazines and journals as Conduit, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Volt, Five Fingers Review, 1913: a journal of forms, 26: a journal of poetry and poetics, Women’s Studies Quarterly and American Letters & Commentary and variously on-line. Lisa has published reviews of work by Eileen Myles, Heid Erdrich, and Magdalena Zurawski as well as essays on Elizabeth Bowen, Ivan Turgenev, poetic form and, with Richard Meier, on Plato, poetry and the city. Lisa was an editor of Poetry Salzburg Review for several years and was elected to serve on the Boston-based Executive Council of the Association for Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) for four years. Currently, Lisa is on the editorial board of Court Green, the faculty-edited journal at Columbia College. She is also at work revising, as a work of hybrid scholarship and criticism, her dissertation on Shelley’s poetics. In addition to British Romantic poetry, Lisa’s scholarly interests are Shakespeare, the modern British novel, American Modernist poetry and other American poetries (Black Mountain School, Objectivists, San Francisco Renaissance), and the inception of poetics with Plato and Aristotle; she also remains interested in psychoanalytic literary theory. She attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate, Western Michigan University for her MFA in poetry, and the University of Utah doctoral program in English and American literature. Outside of academia, she recently enjoyed two stints on the Wave Poetry Bus Tour and has spent extended periods for the last several years in remote villages in Italy and shorter stays in Paris. With Richard Meier and Henry Morren and the assistance of Wave Books, she helps manage summer residencies for poets at Poetry/Farm, an organic farm in southern Wisconsin.

Office Location: English Department, suite 300 R, 33 E. Congress

Office telephone: 312-344-8225

Email: lfishman@colum.edu

Mailing Address: 
Lisa Fishman
Department of English 
Columbia College of Chicago 
600 So. Michigan Avenue 
Chicago, IL 60605