Books
Simple as a Sonnet (Kelsay Books, 2021)
Available direct from the publisher and on Bookshop:
https://kelsaybooks.com/products/simple-as-a-sonnet
https://bookshop.org/books/simple-as-a-sonnet/9781952326943
Also available at:
Grolier Poetry Book Shop (Cambridge, MA)
I AM Books (Boston, MA)
Labor (Nixes Mate, 2018)
Available at the following locations:
Grolier Poetry Book Shop (Cambridge, MA)
Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
I AM Books (Boston, MA)
Trident Booksellers & Café (Boston, MA)
Desperate Literature Book Shop (Madrid, Spain)
Information and links to purchase online:
https://nixesmate.pub/product/labor-lisa-desiro/
https://bookshop.org/books/labor/9780999397138
Author interview: http://www.masspoetry.org/newbookdesiro/
Overview: https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/labor/
Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017)
E-chapbook, available in full here:
https://www.whiteknucklepress.com/lisa-desiro
Anthologies
Pride
Writers Resist: The Anthology
(Running Wild Press, 2018)
http://www.writersresist.com/anthology/
A Survivor Exorcises an Evil Spirit
Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse
(Lost Horse Press, 2017)
http://www.losthorsepress.org/catalog/nasty-women-poets-an-unapologetic-anthology-of-subversive-verse/
Hawks in Harvard Square
Thirty Days: The Best of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project’s First Year
(Tupelo Press, 2015)
Widmung
Er ist der Vater, wir sind die Bub’n: Essays in Honor of Christoph Wolff
(Steglein Publishing, 2010)
Journals, Magazines, etc.
Living Room, with art by Mathilde Jansen
M.A.M.A. Issue 54, January 14, 2023
https://merliterary.com/2023/01/14/m-a-m-a-issue-54-mathilde-jansen-and-lisa-desiro/
https://mommuseum.org/2023/01/15/m-a-m-a-issue-54-mathilde-jansen-lisa-desiro/
Hooded, with art by Thatiana Cardoso
M.A.M.A. Issue 49, October 4, 2021
https://momeggreview.com/2021/10/04/m-a-m-a-issue-49-thatiana-cardoso-and-lisa-desiro/
https://mommuseum.org/2021/10/05/m-a-m-a-issue-49-thatiana-cardoso-words-by-lisa-desiro
Hooded
Mom Egg Review, issue 19, Spring 2021
http://momeggreview.com/2021/04/01/announcing-mom-egg-review-vol-19/
http://momeggreview.com/product/mom-egg-review-19-pdf-copy/
Learning to Rumba
Naked & Clothed
The Avenue, Issue VI: Sexuality, Gender, Identification and Orientation, August 2020
Virus Villanelle
Ovunque Siamo, COVID-19 Issue 1, July 2020
https://ovunquesiamoweb.com/covid-19-issue-1/lisa-desiro/
Gender Envy
The Orchards Poetry Journal, Summer 2020
https://orchardspoetry.com/
Living Room
Mom Egg Review, issue 18, “Home”, Spring 2020
http://momeggreview.com/product/mom-egg-review-18-home/
http://momeggreview.com/product/mom-egg-review-18-pdf-copy/
Finding Sexton’s Grave
In my dream Michelle Obama is coaching the swim team
Independent Noise, Issue 1.6, “Outsider”, Fall 2019
Plovdiv, June 2000
Nixes Mate Review, Issue 13, Fall 2019
http://nixesmate.pub/plovdiv-june-2000-lisa-desiro/
So Many Things Come Out of a Woman’s Body
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, October 1, 2019
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-october-1-2019/
Slow Faults That Kill
Lily Poetry Review, Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2019
Sibling Snapshot
Imagined Advice from Vincent Millay
Mezzo Cammin, Volume 14, Issue 1 (Summer 2019)
http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2019&iss=1&cat=poetry&page=desiro
Motherly Advice
The Orchards Poetry Journal, June 2019
https://orchardspoetry.com/previous-issues/
Beautiful Things
Duos and Trios
The Avenue, Issue V: Music, April 2019
Almost ten years later, I dream of a sighting
Mom Egg Review, issue 17, April 2019
http://momeggreview.com/2019/04/01/mom-egg-review-17/
http://momeggreview.com/product/mom-egg-review-17-pdf-copy/
Nightmare
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, January 23, 2019
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-january-23-2019/
American Sentences
Nixes Mate Review, Issue 10, Winter 2019
http://nixesmate.pub/american-sentences/
Voicelessness
Cliterature, ANTHOLOGY issue, Winter 2018
https://cliteraturejournal.com/lisa-desiro-anthology
Annual Pelvic Ultrasound
Cliterature, HEALTH issue, September 2018
https://cliteraturejournal.com/lisa-desiro-health
Home
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, August 6, 2018
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-august-6-2018/
Pandora Speaks
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, July 30, 2018
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-july-30-2018/
I’m a Girl. What’s your superpower?
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, July 23, 2018
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-july-23-2018/
Ceiling without a Star
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, July 16, 2018
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-july-16-2018/
Love Cannot Come Here
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, July 9, 2018
https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-new-beast-poem-for-july-9-2018/
Lady of the House
The Writers’ Cafe Magazine, issue 10, “Portraits”, July 2018
https://thewriterscafemagazine.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/the-writers-cafe-magazine-issue-10-portraits/
Speaking Italian
Ovunque Siamo, volume 1, issue 6, 2018
https://ovunquesiamoweb.wordpress.com/current-issue-vol-l-issue-6/lisa-desiro/
Wanting to see
Artemis Journal, Volume XXV, 2018
Conveyance
Gloves and Tissues
Blood & Bourbon, Fall 2017
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Bourbon-Fall-Phil-Halton/dp/1775081265/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1513179392&sr=8-2&keywords=blood+%26+bourbon
April
Valentines
The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, No. 43, Winter 2017
Tough as Nails
Annual Mammogram
Utterance
Cordella Magazine, Issue 8: Body, November 2017
http://www.cordella.org/eight#/tough-as-nails
Here is a Hand
Plath Poetry Project, October Week Two Retrospective, 2017
https://plathpoetryproject.com/other-week-two-poems/
A Ladder Rung
Plath Poetry Project, September Retrospective, 2017
https://plathpoetryproject.com/retrospective-for-a-fatherless-son/
Appetite
The Ocean State Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, September 2017
On her deathbed, she said
Nixes Mate Review, Issue 5, Fall 2017
http://nixesmate.pub/on-her-deathbed-she-said/
Minus +1
One Sentence Poems, August 26, 2017
http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/lisa-desiro-minus-1/
Why Single Straight Women Love Their Gay Male Friends
One Sentence Poems, August 25, 2017
http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/lisa-desiro/
We’re Not In Kansas Anymore
Plath Poetry Project, July Retrospective, 2017
https://plathpoetryproject.com/restrospective-poppies-in-july/
Six Among Thousands
Jam Tarts Magazine, Issue #4, August 2017
http://www.jamtartsmagazine.com/six-among-thousands-by-lisa-desiro
Dating through the Decades
A Party Girl Warns Her Heart
Shooter Literary Magazine, Issue # 6, Summer 2017
Observations in the Park
Pre-existing Poems, June 28, 2017
https://preexistingpoems.com/2017/06/28/observations-in-the-park/
Keep an Eye Out
Salamander, Issue #44, June 2017
Going through Customs after the Travel Ban
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, May 6, 2017
http://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-may-6-2017/
Immigrant
Public Display of Affection
Rat’s Ass Review: Such an Ugly Time, April 14, 2017
http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=2399#DeSiro
A Survivor Exorcises an Evil Spirit
Lockdown
Charity
Prodigal’s Chair, The Survival Issue (2017)
http://www.prodigalschair.com/a-survivors-hierarchy-of-needs.html
Hashtag Millennial
Indolent Books: What Rough Beast, April 3, 2017
http://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-april-3-2017/
Babel Tree
Mass Poetry: Poem of the Moment, January 18, 2017
http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment2/#pomdesiro
After the Marathon Bombing
Friends Journal, January 2017
Pride Party
Writers Resist, December 29th, 2016
http://www.writersresist.com/2016/12/29/a-poem-by-lisa-desiro/
Confined
Learning Winterreise
The Road Not Taken, Volume 11, Issue 3 (fall 2016)
http://journalformalpoetry.com/archive/2016/TheRoadNotTakenFall2016.pdf
Indolence Nourishes Grief
The Healing Muse, Volume 16 (2016)
Forbidden Fruit
Leaves & Fishes
Stone Soup
Prodigal’s Chair, The Water Issue (2016)
http://www.prodigalschair.com/three-cups.html
Hospice
Break
Mezzo Cammin, Volume 11, Issue 1 (2016)
http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2016&iss=1&cat=poetry&page=desiro
The dream in which she chews on me
The dream in which she can’t be touched
The dream in which she disappears like a genie
The extreme close-up dream
The basement dream
The snow angel dream
Prodigal’s Chair, The House & Home Issue (2016)
http://www.prodigalschair.com/dreams-of-my-mother.html
Trumped-Up
Rattle, Poets Respond (12/13/2015)
http://www.rattle.com/poetry/trumped-up-by-lisa-desiro/
Hindsight
Notation
Shedding
Self-repairing
The One Who Got Away
A College Student Confesses
Prodigal’s Chair, The Wrong Issue (2015)
http://www.prodigalschair.com/hindsight.html
There’s no crying in Taekwondo
Aethlon, Issue XXXII:2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Gathering in the Aftermath
Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive & WBUR Oral History Project,
hosted at Northeastern University (March 2014)
http://marathon.neu.edu/items/show/8673
Babel Tree
Felled
Bereft
Greetings from Paradise
Going to Visit the Dead
Sixfold, Winter Poetry Issue (2013)
https://www.sixfold.org/PoWinter13/DeSiro.html
Another Art
Syllabics
Mezzo Cammin, Volume 8, Issue 1 (2013)
http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2013&iss=1&cat=poetry&page=desiro
Hawks in Harvard Square
Static Cling
Commonthought Magazine (2013)
https://commonthoughtmagazine.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/commonthought-2013/
Rainy Night Espresso
Retraction
Commonthought Magazine (2012)
https://commonthoughtmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/commonthought-2012-is-here/
Alter Ego
“Hooking Up” Aubade
Commonthought Magazine (2011)
https://commonthoughtmagazine.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/commonthought-2011/
Blogs:
“Art Song, Lieder, & Chansons: Understanding the Poem within the Song”
The Opera Stage Guest Artist Blog, November 1, 2016
An Old Poem Made New: Thoughts on “Carpe Luna”
CMASH (Chamber Music Art Song Hybrid) Blog, March 2, 2014
The Poet Pianist 