Lisa Fishman

Poetry

Lisa Fishman a full-time professor in the English Department of Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches in the MFA Poetry Program and at the undergraduate level.  She is the author of three books of poetry and three chapbooks and has a new  book, F L O W E R  C A R T, forthcoming on Ahsahta Press. Portions of that work appear in recent issues of A Public Space, Conduit, 1913, Volt, Interim, Women’s Studies Quarterly and other journals. Her earlier books are The Happiness Experiment and Dear, Read (both published on Ahsahta), and The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press). Chapbooks are Lining (Boxwood Editions), KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press), and ‘The Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes’: Notes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the Margins of Her Greek and Hebrew Bibles (Parcel Press).

Fishman regularly teaches poetry workshops for MFA students and undergraduates; she also teaches British Romantic Literature, Poetics, and various craft seminars on such topics as poets’ letters, close reading, and Hopkins and Dickinson. Fishman’s interest in psychoanalytic and literary theory informs her teaching at the graduate level, as does her research and writing on Shelley’s Mercurial poetics. Fishman has presented conference papers on Wordsworth, Derrida, Michael Palmer, and Barrett Browning’s Greek and Hebrew Bibles. She has published short essays on Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris; Turgenev’s Virgin Soil;  poetry, Plato and the city (with Richard Meier); and poetic form and the training of apple trees. She divides her time between Chicago and Orfordville, Wisconsin, where her farm is. Periodically she stays in France or Italy for extended periods.

Office Location: English Department, Room 520, 33 E. Congress

Office telephone: 312-369-8225

Email: lfishman@colum.edu

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