Name Lisa Olstein | Role Poet | |
Books Radio crackling - radio gone, Lost Alphabet, Little Stranger | ||
Weekly poem radio crackling radio gone by lisa olstein
Lisa Olstein is an American poet. She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, received a BA from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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- Weekly poem radio crackling radio gone by lisa olstein
- The collected poets series lisa olstein october 1 2009 part 2
- Poetry
- References
Her first book of poems, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006) won the Hayden Carruth Award. Her second collection, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. Her most recent book of poetry, Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) explores the complexities - beautiful and brutal - of our present moment.
Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and other journals. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
Olstein currently teaches in the Michener Center for Writers (MFA program for Poets and Writers) at the University of Texas, Austin.