Lisa Ampleman is the author of three full-length books of poetry—most recently Mom in Space (2024) and Romances (2020), both published by LSU Press—and a chapbook in the Wick Poetry Center series. Her work has appeared in journals including 32 Poems, Colorado Review, Cortland Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Shenandoah, and Southern Review. She lives in Cincinnati and is managing editor of The Cincinnati Review and poetry series editor at Acre Books.
Poetry
Spring 2025
from Salt Through the Hourglass
The Kenyon Review · from “Salt Through the Hourglass” by Lisa Ampleman When I was a child I wanted nothing but narrative,wanted every lyric to tell a story with a […]
Spring 2014
Kant the Nephrologist
Transplanted from Königsberg, our Immanuel— active, rational subject—evaluates kidneys.