Lisa Lewis
Professor
Ph.D., 1993, University of Houston
M.F.A., 1983, University of Iowa
B.A., 1980, cum laude, Virginia Intermont College
Areas of Interest & Expertise
Poetry Writing
Gender and Women's Studies
Contemporary Literature
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 2513, Introduction to Creative Writing (Honors)
ENGL 3040, Poetry Writing
ENGL 4640, Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL 5723, Craft and Forms of Poetry
ENGL 5740, Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 6140, Studies in Creative Writing: Poetry
Selected Publications
Books and Chapbooks:
The Borrowing Days (chapbook), Emrys Press, 2021
Taxonomy of the Missing, The WordWorks Press, 2018
The Body Double, Georgetown Review Press, 2016
Burned House with Swimming Pool, Dream Horse Press, 2011
Vivisect, New Issues Press, 2010
Story Box (chapbook), Poetry West, 2008
Silent Treatment, Viking/Penguin, 1998
The Unbeliever, University of Wisconsin Press, 1994
Individual Poem Publications:
“Borderlands” to be published in Florida Review
“Feminist Wife” to be published in Free State Review
“Small Neighborhood” Last Stanza Poetry Review 5 (2021): 3-4
“Signs of Future History,” The Courtship of Winds Summer 2021
https://www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/lisa-lewis
“The Middle of the Movie,” The Cape Rock 49(2021): 8-9
“Parking Lot Allegory,” “Candle,” and “in the eyes of the watcher,” Posit
https://positjournal.com/2021/01/27/lisa-lewis/
“How to Make Up Your Mind,” Interim 36(2020): 73-75
“The Borrowing Days,” Diode 13.3 http://diodepoetry.com/lewis_lisa/
“Translation Between Friends” and “How We Become Murderous,” Pine Hills
Review August 19, 2020
“Where It Hurts,” Rogue Agent(64)July 2020
http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/llewis
“Streak,” Laurel Review 52(2019): 18-19
“Secretive,” Gulf Coast 32(2019): 192-194
“Suicide Line,” Crazyhorse 95(2019): 50-51
“We Have a New President,” “why you stayed behind,” “Intruder,” and “one last road trip,” South Dakota Review 54(2019): 70-77
“Late Tourism,” The James Dickey Review 34(2018): 36-7
“Petition for a Plastic Procedure,” Cloudbank 11
“Gravida” and “Patriarchy,” Switchgrass Review 4(2018): 13-15
“Mammary,” Burnside Review 13(2017): 15-17
- "A Rare Visit" and "A Scheme for Conflagration," American Journal of Poetry 3 (2017)
“Rig” and “What Goes Before Going Unscathed,” The Meadow (2017): 16-18; 61-62
“Koan,” The Moth 29(2017): 15
“Disobedient” and “After the Hurricanes,” No Tokens 6(2017): 23-28
“Postbellum,” Pembroke 49(2017): 20-21
“Forms of Vice and Intemperance,” Kestrel 36(2016): 40-41
“Prove Me Wrong,” Florida Review 40(2016): 71-72
- "Jesus Devil Curse," Four Way Review 9 (2016)
“Autodidact,” WomenArts Quarterly 6(2016): 23
“Quadriptych,” Art Focus Oklahomaalso in print pg. 22-23
“Arched,” Pamplemousse 2(2015): 66-68
“Dry Hollows,” New England Review 36(2015): 157-158
“Cure” and “This State Has No Coastline, But Aren’t Those Legs Sticking Out of the Sand?,” Sugar House Review 10(2014): 48-51
Prose:
“Two ‘Nasty Women’ Discuss Writing and Editing during Trumpism: A
Conversation with AGNI Contributor and Poet Lisa Lewis,” Agni Online, Fall 2020
Review of Oklahoma Poets Laureate: A Sourcebook, History, and Anthology,
Chronicles of Oklahoma 94(2016): 240-241
“Where There Are Mountains, There Must Be Valleys,” Walk Till the Dogs Get
Mean: Essays on the Forbidden from a New Appalachia, ed. Adrian Blevins
and Karen McElmurray (Ohio University Press, 2015): 183-193
“their words make this possible,” Roundtable discussion with Emily Johnston, Jehanne Dubrow, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Grace Bauer, Monica Wendel, Tyler Mills, Rosemary Winslow, Jennifer Perrine, and Sarah Chavez, Spoon River Poetry Review blog, April 2014 http://www.srpr.org/blog/their-words-make-this-possible-a-roundtable-discussion-of-poetics-of-emplacement-with-poets-from women-write-resistance-poets-resist-gender-violence/
“An Interview with Lisa Lewis,” with Jeff Simpson, The Fiddleback, Winter 201 http://thefiddleback.com/issue-items/an-interview-with-lisa-lewis
“Ai in Oklahoma,” Cimarron Review 173 (Fall 2010): 8-18
“Hating to Be Born: Forced Motherhood” (essay), Off Our Backs: the Feminist Newsjournal 36.2(2006): 51-53
"Excitement, Adoration; Grudging Admiration; or, Different Strokes for Different Sexes, (essay), Feminista: The Journal of Feminist Construction 6.1 (2003)
“From the Editor: The Sexual Politics of Website Publishing” (essay), Crazyhorse 57(1999): 7-26
Anthologies and Reprints
“What Grows in Oklahoma” to be published in Creative Field Guide to Northeastern Oklahoma
“Report from the Outlying Territory” to be published in Level Land: Poems for and about the I-35 Corridor
“HUSBANDRY COMMERCE SENTIMENT,” A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019)
“Le Cygne,” Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2017): 204-207
“The Accident,” Red Sky: poetry on the global epidemic of violence against women (Sable Books, 2016): 70-72
“Five Rooms,” CutBank: Forty Years (2013): 109-112
“The Accident” and “Tracy and Joe,” Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Blue Light Press, 2013): 103-108
“Travel Plans for Social Outcasts,” Poem of the Week featured poem, February 11, 2012, http://www.poemoftheweek.org/id496.html.
“Mystes,” reprinted in Best of Potomac Review 50(2011): 136
“Coupled,” Verse Daily featured poem, June 2, 2011
“Counting Change,” Poetry Daily featured poem, May 7, 2011
“The Transformation,” Verse Daily featured poem, October 7, 2010
“Mystes,” Verse Daily featured poem, September 17, 2010
“Knowledge,” Poetry Daily featured poem, September 5, 2010
“Field with No Horse In It,” “Coupled,” “Girls Who Love Horses,” and “The Lamed Mare” reprinted in Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration ofHorses (Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008): 53-54, 59-61, 220-222, 301-304
“Cloudtime,” Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from1951-1977 (Mercer University Press, 2006): 216-217
“Field with No Horse in It” reprinted in Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977 (Mercer University Press, 2006): 214-215
“May Mowing Clover,” Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets DoHousework (University of Iowa Press, 2005): 86-88
“The Young” reprinted in Are You Experienced?: Baby Boom Poets atMidlife (University of Iowa Press, 2003): 170-171
“Tracy and Joe,” Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology (University of Iowa Press, 2002): 202-203
“Media” (poem) and essay, My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influenceand Mastery (Bedrock Books, 2001): 112-124
“February” and “Responsibility” reprinted in The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (Norton, 2000): 390-393
“The Accident” reprinted in Beyond Portia: Women, Law, and Literature in the United States (Northeastern, 1997).
“The Accident” reprinted in Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels,Restaurants, and Bars (Milkweed Editions, 1997): 165-168
“Bridget” reprinted in Best American Poetry 1995: 134-136
“My Students” reprinted in Pushcart Prize 1994/1995: 169-170
“The Urinating Man” reprinted in Best American Poetry 1993: 139-141
“The Staircase” reprinted in Houston Metropolitan October 1988: 76
“Hatteras Lighthouse,” “Silence,” “Oats,” “Red Ribbon,” and “Revisions” reprinted in In Art March 1987: 18-19
Honors & Offices
Emrys Press Chapbook Prize, 2020
WordWorks Press Tenth Gate Prize, 2017
Georgetown Review Poetry Manuscript Prize, 2014
Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Oklahoma State University, 2013
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship in Creative Writing, 2011
American Poetry Journal Book Contest, Dream Horse Press, 2008
Poetry West Chapbook Contest, 2008
Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Oklahoma State University, 2004
Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, Oklahoma State University, 2002
Arts and Sciences Faculty Council Junior Faculty Award for Scholarly
Excellence, Oklahoma State University, 1998.
National Poetry Series, 1997
Dean’s Incentive Grant, Oklahoma State University, 1997
Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Award, Crazyhorse, 1996
Arts and Sciences Research Grant, 1996
Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize, American Poetry Review, 1995
Brittingham Prize, University of Wisconsin Press, 1994
Pushcart Prize, 1994
Poets and Writers, Inc., Writers Exchange Contest, 1992
Regional Winner (Western Region), American Council for the
Arts/Dewar’s Profiles Performance Arts Award in Poetry, 1991
Barthelme Memorial/Inprint Fellowship, University of Houston, 1990
John Moores Scholarship, University of Houston, 1989
Tom McAfee Discovery Prize, Missouri Review, 1987
First Place, PEN/Southwest Discovery Prize, Poetry, 1985.
First Place, Houston International Festival Prize, Poetry, 1985.
Stella Erhardt Scholarship, University of Houston, 1984.
Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Iowa, 1983.
Professional Activities
Program Director, Creative Writing, Summer 1999-Fall 2016; Summer 2019-present
Editor in Chief, Cimarron Review, Summer 2019-present
Poetry Editor, Cimarron Review, Fall 1995-present
Guest Editor, Poet Ai tribute issue, Cimarron Review, Fall 2010
Advisory Board, OSU Center for Poets and Writers, Fall 2017-Fall 2020
Faculty Advisor, OSU/Stillwater Chapter, National Organization for
Women, Fall 1995-Spring 2011
Faculty Advisor, OSU Women’s Resource Center Student Alliance, Fall 1999-Spring 2011
Faculty Advisor, Midland Review, Fall 1995-Spring 1997
Secretary, Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, Spring 2004-Spring 2005
Committee on Common Survey of Instruction for Online Courses, Spring 2006
Arts and Sciences Policy and Planning Committee, Fall 2008-2010
Arts and Sciences Faculty Council, 2003-2006
Chair, Women’s Faculty Council, Fall 2000-Fall 2001
Vice Chair, Women’s Faculty Council, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Chair, Women’s Faculty Council Subcommittee on Grants and Awards, Spring 2002
Women’s Faculty Council, Fall 2000-Fall 2001
(Gender and) Women’s Studies Program Core Faculty, Spring 2001-Fall 2015
Search Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies program director, Summer 2008
Search Committee, Women’s Studies, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Vice-Chair, Graduate Faculty Council, Group II, Fall 1997-Spring 1998
Secretary, Graduate Faculty Council, Group II, Fall 1996-Spring 1997
English Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, present
English Department Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2001-Spring 2002,Fall 2008-Spring 2010, Fall 2013-Spring 2015
English Department Personnel Committee, ad hoc subcommittee for promotion of Toni Graham to full professor, Fall 2014-Spring 2014
English Department Personnel Committee, Fall 1998-Spring 1999
English Department Curriculum Committee, Fall 1997-Spring 2000; Fall 2016 (Secretary 1997-1998, Chair 1998-1999); Fall 2012-Spring 2015; Fall 2019
English Department ad hoc committee on Procedural Appeal guidelines change, Fall 2020-present
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, visiting fiction writer, Spring 2019
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, tenure-track poet and tenure-track creative nonfiction writer, Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, visiting poet and visiting creative nonfiction writer, Spring 2015
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, tenure-track poet, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, senior poet and tenure-track creative Nonfiction writer, Fall 2010
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, visiting poet, Spring 2010
Search Committee, Creative Writing, OSU-Tulsa visiting writer, Fall 2019
Search Committee, English Department head, Spring 2019
Search Committee, Creative Writing, tenure-track fiction writer, Fall 2013-Spring 2014
Search Committee, Creative Writing, visiting fiction/creative nonfiction writer, Spring 2013
Search Committee, Creative Writing, tenure-track fiction writer, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Search Committee, Creative Writing, visiting poet, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Search Committee, Creative Writing, visiting fiction writer and tenure-track fiction writer, Fall 1998-Spring 1999
Search Committee Chair, Creative Writing, visiting poet and tenure-track poet, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Sexual Harassment Advisory Panel/Diversity Board, Spring 1995-2002
Mentor, Undergraduate Wentz Project, Eva Foster, Fall 2000-Spring 2001
Mentor, Undergraduate Wentz Project, Jennifer Dobbs, Fall 1996-Spring 1997
Co-organizer, Wentz Reading Series, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Co-organizer, Cimarron Literary Festival, Spring 2003
Advisor, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Robyn Diaz, Fall 2012
Advisor, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Kristine Engle, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Advisor, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Jennifer Dobbs, Fall 1996-Spring 1997
Second Reader, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Kennedy Essmiller, Spring 2019
Second Reader, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Daniel Metroka, Spring 2020