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Little Dancer - The Degas Poems
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New Book Just out:

#AliveLikeALoadedGun

AliveLikeALoadedGun

Moving Thru Stained Glass —
The Maple Poems

Moving Thru Stained Glass

Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle
Secretariat

Femme Eterna

tango

Tangled as the Alphabet

Tangled

Malala
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Marilyn Monroe: Poems reissued in 2013!
monroe

 

A Girl Goes into the Woods (Now Available)

A Girl Goes Into the Woods

For the Roses: Poems Inspired by Joni Mitchell

For the Roses

Hitchcock Hotel

hitchcock

Knife Edge & Absinthe
The Tango Poems

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Tsunami as History

ALL THE POETS WHO HAVE TOUCHED ME, LIVING AND DEAD: ALL TRUE, ESPECIALLY THE LIES
all the poets

Ballroom
Ballroom

Katrina

Katrina
Light at the End
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Lost in Fog
lost in 					fog


Nutley Pond
nutley 						pond


92 Rapple Drive

Rapple Drive


Persephone

persephone

Jesus Christ:
Live and in the Flesh

Jesus Christ Live
from Future Tense Press, $4.00 -- on main page of their site

Desire
desire


Another woman
Another Woman
announced in
Poets & Writers Magazine
See Publisher's Weekly article.


its light

 

 

 


cold comfort


Lyn Lifshin Award



Poet Awards


The Lyn Lifshin site won Honorable mention in the PoetrySuperHighway site awards in the category: FAVORITE WEBSITE - INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGE


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Celebrating the Life of Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin of Niskayuna, NY passed away on December 9, 2019 at the home of her friend Albert Jordan in Vienna, VA following illness and a fall. Lyn was a poet who had written over 130 books and chapbooks and edited four anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines. She has given more than 700 readings across the USA and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum and Huntington Library. Lyn also taught poetry at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award, she is the subject of the documentary film "Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass." For her dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any academic institution, she has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." Perhaps it was Robert Frost who helped launch her lifetime of poetry when in her childhood he complemented her poetry. She has also been praised by Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson." She recently was named a Literary Legend by the Albany NY Public Library Foundation. She also developed a passion for dancing-ballet, ballroom and Argentine tango. A celebration of her life is being planned in Schenectady, NY for June 6, 2020. Details are still being worked out. In order to help us plan, please send expressions of interest in the celebration of life to Lyn@LynLifshin.com. When the details are finalized, we will respond to those expressing an interest. Also, you may send remembrances to Lyn@LynLifshin.com.

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"Your poems still fly straight to my heart." — Sy Safransky (the editor of The Sun)

Tango Video Watch Lyn Lifshin doing the Argentine Tango!

Now available . . .

Recently Published: Little Dancer - The Degas Poems

LUMINOUS WOMEN: ENHEDUANNA, SCHEHERAZADE AND NEFERTITI Femme Eterna

New book JUST OUT: #AliveLikeALoadedGun

 

SO YOU THINK I WROTE ABOUT YOU - An essay by Lyn

New interviews of LynBarbaro Icon

Barbaro, Beyond Brokenness

by Lyn Lifshin

 

 

Both Barbaro and The Licorice Daughter are available from the Texas Review Consortium at 800-826-8911


Ruffian IconThe Licorice Daughter:

My Year with Ruffian

Winner of the Texas Review Award

Read more about this book.
and the article from the Lexington Herald-Leader

Read two new reviews

Listen to Lyn read from the book (in interview with Grace Cavalieri)

 

(Portrait of Ruffian shown on cover is in private collection of John Bellucci)

Bio Notes

lyn1Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A, and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. She has given more than 700 readings across the U.S.A. and has appeared at Dartmouth and Skidmore colleges, Cornell University, the Shakespeare Library, Whitney Museum, and Huntington Library. Lyn Lifshin has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. Winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, Lyn is the subject of the documentary film Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her absolute dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses." She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson."

Lyn Lifshin's prizewinning book (Paterson Poetry Award) Before It's Light was published Winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. The Licorice Daughter was published in February 2006 and Another Woman who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow-David Godine in October 2006. (order@godine.com) Also books include A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead, March Street Press, Marilyn Monroe, When a Cat Dies, Another Woman's Story, Barbie Poems, The Daughter I Don't Have, What Matters Most, and Blue Tattoo. Lifshin has won awards for her non-fiction and edited four anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines. Her poem "No More Apologizing" has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement" by Alicia Ostriker. An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical Series, "On the Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace," was published in Spring, 2003. Texas Review Press published her poems about the famous, short-lived, beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian. New books include Mirrors, August Wind, Novemberly and just out spring 2008, 92 Rapple Drive and Desire. She is working on a collection about poets, Poets, (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies will be published by World Parade and Tsunami will come from Blue Heron Press. Other forthcoming books include a book about the courageous and riveting race horse, Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness from Texas Review Press, Nutley Pond from Goose River Press, Lost in the Fog from Finishing Line Press, Persephone from Red Hen. For interviews, more bio material, photographs, reviews, a contact, interviews and samples of her work, browse this website: www.lynlifshin.com.

newListen to a Podcast discussion with Belinda Subraman


Download Lyn Lifshin's Radio interview on janecrown.com or listen in streaming audio.


In Mirrors
In Mirrors from Pressapress

Not Made of GlassRare copies found! The Companion Volume to the film: Not Made of Glass available from the author.

Read Lyn's thoughts about Caffe Lena, where she read in July, 2006.

A new podcast (audio interview) of Lyn Lifshin by Belinda Subraman is posted at BZoO HomeGrown Radio

New selection of Lyn's poetry on The Pedestal Magazine and more of Lynn's poetry on the web.

Another new chapbook, July 2004: Another Woman's Story, $5.00, limited (collector's edition) item, available from Butcher Shop Press, David Greenspan, 529 Beech 132nd Street, Rockaway Beach, NY 11694. Email: butchershoppress@hotmail.com.

Read Laura Stamps' review of Lyn's newest book: When a Cat Dies and order the book.

February 2004 interview by Alice Pero, the Co-Host of Moonday on Montana, in Southern California Poetix

Four-part interview of Lyn by Babel Magazine, and particularly her delightful answer to question 25!

A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead (March Street Press). Learn more and read a review . . .

New Chapbook: She Was Found Treading Water Deep Out in the Ocean, by Lyn Lifshin, from Platonic 3Way Press.


The Barbie Poems Vol I, Vol II and Vol III

The Daughter I Don't Have

Another Woman Who Looks Like Me

Read the Review by Joyce Metzger

Hear Lyn read one of her poems in real audio on the Christian Science Monitor's web

RealAudio readings of Lyn's works on the Cortland Review

More poetry, books, prose of Lyn. Browse the site.

More poems from Cold Comfort and Before it's LIGHT

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     Last Updated: January 8, 2017