EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), English
M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh, Creative Writing (Poetry)
B.F.A., Emerson College, Creative Writing
CURRENT POSITION
2001 – present: Professor of English, Plymouth State University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
A Case for Solace, 2022, Lily Poetry Review Books
Beating the Bounds 2017, Hobblebush Books
Chapbooks
Home Economics (2016, Seven Kitchens Press)
Talking About the Weather (2012, Seven Kitchens Press)
Luck (2010, Pecan Grove Press), 2011 New Hampshire Literary Awards, Reader’s Choice Award in Poetry
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine, winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol poetry chapbook prize, published in 2008 by Slapering Hol Press
On The Avenue of Eternal Peace, 2003, Lyra Press (Chapbook, limited hand-bound and artist-signed edition of 30)
Selected Publications in Poetry, Literary Journals (full list available upon request)
“Stock,” forthcoming in Passager
“Visiting Willa Cather’s Grave, Jaffrey, NH” and “She Finally Asks,” forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom
“Desire” and “My Mother Loves,” forthcoming in the ASP Bulletin
“Remnants” in New Verse News, April 14, 2023
“Dinner,” “Lake,” and “Aligned,” in Revolute, Vol .004, March 2023
“Mapping the Veins,” in The Poets’ Touchstone
“What Can be Done,” in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, February 2023
“The Cold,” in New Verse News, February 4, 2023
“Corrective” and “Disclosure,” in Moist Poetry Journal, November 20, 2022
“Chalk” and “At the University Hockey Game,” in Porcupine Literary, Nov. 7, 2022
“Religion” and “the little bat tries” in the lickety-split, October 18, 2022
“Moth,” in Barzakh Magazine (August 2022)
“After a Downpour During a Drought,” in West Trestle Review (July/August 2022)
“Pool Therapy,” in Rogue Agent (Issue #88, July 2022)
“Chairs,” in Brain Mill Press, National Poetry Month Feature, April 2022
“Preservation,” in Able Muse, No. 29, Winter 2021/2022
“Living in the Shade,” in Quartet Literary Journal, Winter 2022 (January 2022)
“A Nest in the Palm of Your Hand,” in Lavender Review, December 2021
“Empty” and “Good Housekeeping,” in One Art: A Journal of Poetry, October 6, 2021
“Watching the Blood Moon,” in Limp Wrist (Villanelle Issue), October 2021
“Prayer Against Healing,” in the New Verse News, July 22, 2021
“Conjunctions, 2020,” in Transition: Poems in the Afterglow, December 22, 2020
“On the Eve of Social Distancing,” in What Rough Beast (COVID-19 edition), June 4, 2020
“Ambush,” in Naugatuck River Review, No 23, January 2020
“Amnesia at the Cash Tables” and “Home Game,” in Nimrod (“Words at Play”), Spring 2020 (Video of Liz reading “Home Game” – text of poem in comments)
“My Father’s Hat,” in Prairie Schooner, Winter 2019 (Vol. 93 No. 4)
“When to Eat the Peach,” in Crab Orchard Review Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 2019) https://issuu.com/craborchardreview/docs/book_24_2c2__1_
“Aquarium, February,” in American Life in Poetry, February 2019
“Putting the Flowers Out,” in Atticus Review, January 2019
“Hunger,” in Barrelhouse Online feature “Tribute to Anthony Bourdain,” Sep. 2018
“Water on the Moon,” in Slipstream, No. 38, Fall 2018
“Man Walks 20 Miles to First Day of Work, CEO Gifts Him Car as Thanks,” in The New Verse News, July 19, 2018
“When She Comes Home From Camp,” in Lavender Review, June 2018
“Rift,” “Shearing,” “Ultrasound,” “Extraction,” and “Home from Traveling,” in Sinister Wisdom (No. 106), Fall 2017
“Evangelical Pastors Lay Hands On Donald Trump In The Oval Office, July 12, 2017,” in What Rough Beast, September 17, 2017
“Ortho” in The Good Men Project, August 2017
“My Father’s Tools,” in The Good Men Project, June 2017
“Beating the Bounds,” Nimrod (Vol 59, No 2), Spring/Summer 2017
“Defending the Constitution,” in What Rough Beast, April 28, 2017
“Fake Ghazal,” in What Rough Beast, March 6, 2017
“About Suffering” and “Lake Michigan is So Clear Right Now…” Atlanta Review (Vol 23, No. 1), Fall 2016
“Braid,” “At the Pool Hall,” and “Scansion, Able Muse No. 22, Winter 2016
“Playa,” Measure (11.1) 2016
“Saturn V,” “The Radium Girls,” and “The Radiators in Ellen Reed House,” Rappahannock Review (Issue 3.3, August 2016)
“Juarez: Sugar for the Narco-Saints,” Cutthroat (21), Summer 2016
“Suicide Jacket,” in River Styx #96, Summer 2016
“Transfer Station,” Nimrod (Vol. 65, No. 2) Spring/Summer 2016
“Snow Fort,” Panoply, Issue 3, May 2016
“Elizabeth Ann,” “Proof,” “Why I Play Poker,” “I Invented This Rain,” “Washing the Money,” and “Portent,” A Dozen Nothing, May 2016
“Water Cycle,” Bloom, No. 10, April 2016
“Paris Green,” “Re-Entry,” “Ian,” “The Great Attractor,” “Broken Sapphics,” “Life of the Party, and “Groovy Owl Revival,” Adrienne, Issue 6, February 2016
“In the Poker Room” in Panoply Issue 2, January 2016
“Aretha Drops Her Fur Coat To The Stage,” in Spiraling, Paris Press, January 1, 2016
“Bourbon at Midlife,” Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2015
“Everything She Can’t See,” Rappahannock Review, Issue 2.3, Fall 2015
“Empire, 1970,” Ecotone, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2015
“Compliance,” in Tidal Basin Review(Winter 2015)
“Dinner Party,” in Little Patuxent Review (No. 17, Winter 2015)
“Walnut,” “Travel Alarm Clock,” and “From Your Grandmother’s Steamer Trunk, A Wooden Ruler from the Temperance League of Nebraska, Inc.,” in Pea River Journal (Fall 2014)
“D.B. Cooper’s Last Cigarette” and “Skull Discovered in Nebraska Almost Certainly Not D.B. Cooper’s,” in museum of americana, No. 6, August 2014
“The Thaw” and “The Paper House,” forthcoming in Measure (Vol. 8, No. 1)
“The E-mail’s Down,” “Medusa, On Winter,” “The Classics,” and “My Papers,” in Mezzo Cammin, January 2014
“Buoyancy,” in Conclave, December 2013
“The Last Grapefruit,” “Appetites,” “On the Locksmith’s Retirement,” and “Four Birds on Thursday,” in OVS, Winter 2013
“Strung,” in String Poet, Vol. II, Issue 2
“After the Fog,” Crab Orchard Review, 17:2, Summer/Fall 2012
“Splitting the Heartwood,” Measure, 6:2, 2012
“Lost Spaces,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, #50, April 2012
“Mississippi Hymn,” in Iron Horse Literary Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2011
“Trajectories” and “The Conjugations of Light,” in Vol. 13, No. 2 & 3, Winter 2010
“February 29,” BigCityLit.com, Fall 2009
“Dress Code” and “Luck,” The Same, Volume 8, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2009
“War Shortages,” The November 3rd Club, March 2008
“First Chest Pain,” “On The First Date,” and “How The World Will End,” Einstein’s Tongue, February 2008
“Landing It,” North American Review, Vol. 292, No. 5, Sep/Oct 2007
“Hunger,” Alimentum, Issue 4, Summer 2007
“Tides,” “Bully,” and “Flight Distance,” Prairie Schooner, V. 81, No. 2, Summer 2007
“Intertidal” and “On the 13th Annual July 4 Reading of Song of Myself,” The Women’s Review of Books, Volume 24, Issue 2, March/April 2007
“You Pantoum,” Court Green, Volume 4, 2007
“Black Box,” Margie, Volume 5, 2006
“Famous Trainer Drowned by Killer Whale,” 5AM, Issue #25, Fall 2006
“By Stars,” White Pelican Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2006
“All-In” and “October Blizzard,” Four Corners, Number 3, Spring 2006
“Inshallah” and “Styx Concert,” Crab Orchard Review, Fall 2005
“Living With Squirrels,” “Before and After,” and “The Bat in the Dorm Room,” Acts of Emancipation (Plymouth Writers’ Group), Fall 2005
“The Art Student Listens to the Song of the Saw,” Clackamas Literary Review, Vol. VIII, 2004
“Translation,” River Styx, No. 67, 2004
“Dylan Plugs in at Newport” and “Airport Cafe,” 5AM, #19, Fall 2003
“Yard Sale,” Lost And Found, (Plymouth Writers’ Group), Fall 2003
“Prescribed Burns,” “The Thousand,” and “The New Light,” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 77, No. 3, Fall 2003
*“Signs, Spring,” Isotope (formerly Petroglyph), V.1, No. 1, Summer 2003
“The Cat,” Northern New England Review, Vol. 24, Issues 1 & 2 (double issue), 2002
“Defining Moment,” Love and Trouble, (Plymouth Writers’ Group) Summer 2002
“When We Smoked” and “Commerce,” The Women’s Review of Books, April 2002
“The Imperfect,” Writing on the Edge, Spring/Summer 2002
*“The Dominant Eye” and “On The Avenue of Eternal Peace,” HEArt Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 2001
“Blue Weekend,” The Laurel Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2001
“Who Do You Drive For,” Exit 13, Number 9, 2000
“Ammo,” Slipstream, Number 20, 2000
“Dobro,” Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2000
“Signs,” The Formalist, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2000
(pre-2000 journal publications available upon request)
Poetry Published in Anthologies
“Dr. Rendezvous Takes Communion on the Moon,” in Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022, Midge Goldberg, editor)
“We Learned,” “Signs of Hope,” and “The Brightness and the Fade,” in the Smoky Quartz 10th Anniversary Anthology, Monadnock Writers Group (November 2022)
“I Remember the Future,” in COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, (Hobblebush Books, September 2020)
“Research Paper” and “At the Laundromat,” in Show Us Your Papers (anthology, Main Street Rag publishing, September 2020)
“Chickens,” in Lunation: A Good Fat Anthology of 114 Women Poets (Good Fat, 2019)
“Dylan Plugs in at Newport,” in Visiting Bob (New Rivers Press, 2018)
“Playing Poker While Female,” Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017)
“Artists at the Mint Bar,” in Double Kiss: Contemporary Writers on the Art of Billiards (Mammoth Books, 2017)
“Others Carried Milk,” in If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017
“Setting Type” in Poet Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets, Hobblebush Books, 2015
“Electric Homework” and “Eavesdropping on the Environmental Biologists,” in This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013)
“Failed Meditation,” in Moments of the Soul: Poems of Meditation and Mindfulness by Writers of Every Faith (Spirit First, 2010)
“Submariner,” in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012)
“The Bear,” The 2010 Poet’s Guide to New Hampshire: More Places, More Poets (Poetry Society of New Hampshire, 2009)
“Walter Cronkite Takes Off His Glasses,” The Other Side of Sorrow March 2006
“Defining Moment,” in Red, White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America, University of Iowa Press, 2004
“Moon, Come Back, I Still Love You,” in Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies, Red Hen Press, 2004
“Monster Truck,” “Speed Demon,” “Spring Snowstorm” and “The Picassos” in Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace, the Backwaters Press, 2002
“Ammo,” in Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence, University of Iowa Press, 2002
Juried Gallery Shows/Art Collaborations
Contributor, “Person of Interest,” opening January 2019, Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth, NH
Co-Curator and Contributor, “Finding Place on Paper: Contemporary Poets and Printmakers Explore the White Mountains,” at the Museum of the White Mountains, October-December, 2016
“Sediments, Sequences and Solitude: Artworks and Poetry from 2011-2015 Playa Artists in Residence,” Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR, Jan 15-March 11, 2016; Atelier 6000, Bend, OR, April 1-30, 3016; World Forestry Center, Portland, OR, July 28-Sep 25, 2016. (Poem: “Playa,” included in show and in catalogue)
“Fantasy Worlds,” Galletly Gallery, New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH, October 2010 (poetry/artwork collaboration with artist Elizabeth D’Amico)
“Shine,” Northeast Chapters of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, August 4-28, 2010 (poetry/artwork collaboration with artist Elizabeth D’Amico)
“Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends,” AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH, September 2009 (poetry/artwork collaboration with artist Elizabeth D’Amico, including poems “Hunger,” “Siren,” “(Re)Creation Myth,” and “Failed Meditation.”)
Invited Readings (Selected; complete list available upon request)
Lily Poetry Review Books Group Reading / AWP Conference, Offsite, Seattle Central Library, Betty Jane Narver Reading Room, March 10, 2023, 7pm
The W-E (West-East) Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond with Lisa Badner, Anne Harding Woodworth, and Lauren Camp, January 15, 2023, 7pm EST (online)
Space: 100 Poems, group reading from the anthology, McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord, NH, December 2, 2022
Book Launch reading and conversation for A Case for Solace, hosted by Lily Poetry Review Books, November 13, 2022 (online)
Writers Association of Northern Appalachia “WANA Live” reading series (online) May 27, 2021
“Conversations with Granite State Poets,” with Martha Carlson-Bradley, sponsored by Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord NH, (online) April 12, 2021
In Our Own Write: A Reading & Conversation with Liz Ahl & Jeff Oaks, March 25, 2021 (online)
“Show Us Your Papers” anthology, online reading by various contributors, sponsored by White Whale Book Store of Pittsburgh, PA, Friday, January 29, 2021
Reading with Josh Nicholaisen, Holderness Public Library, Thursday, March 5, 2020
Central New Hampshire Writing Circle Open Mic, True Brew Barista, Concord, NH, February 15, 2020
Poetry Bridging Continents IV, Reading with visiting Chinese poets, AMC Highland Center, Bretton Woods, NH, October 31, 2019
Plymouth State University Alumni Association “Lunch and Learn” on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, October 2019
Holderness Public Library, “Moon Shot” (reading to commemorate 50th anniversary of the moon landing), July 17, 2019
“Poetry Spoken Here” Podcast, Interview and Reading, December 2018
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA, group reading from (and discussion of) Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, May 5, 2018
Collected Poets Reading Series, Mocha Maya’s, Shelburne Falls, MA, April 5, 2018
Mad River Coffee House, Campton, NH, reading with Paul Rogalus, March 30, 2018
Radio Interview/Reading on “The Bookshelf” with Peter Biello, New Hampshire Public Radio, March 30, 2018
Café Muse Reading Series, Chevy Chase, MD, reading with David Keplinger, March 19, 2018
Porter Square Books, Cambridge MA, Group reading for Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, February 23, 2018
Haunting Whisper Vineyard & Spirits, “Local Wines, Local Poets” reading with Suzanne Marshall, November 25, 2017
Pease Public Library (Book Launch event for Beating the Bounds), Plymouth, NH, October 30, 2017
Philosophy 4 Life Radio Show, interview and reading, June 2017
Eagle Pond Reading Series, Plymouth State University, September 2016
Wheaton College, October 2013
Queertopia Reading, AWP Conference, March 2013
Beat Night at the Press Room, Portsmouth, NH, January 2010
Jazzmouth Festival, Portsmouth, NH, April 2009
Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, March 2009
Featured Speaker, Poetry Pedagogy Forum, AWP Conference, Chicago, February 2009
New Hampshire Poetry Society Reading, The Mill, Bristol, NH, July 2008
UPWords Reading Series, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008
Portsmouth Poetry Hoot, June 2007
Terminal Hip Dance Theatre, August 1 & 27, 2006
“Wings, Feathers, Flight: The Birds of Artists and Poets,” (juried show and reading) Millbrook Gallery, Concord, NH, May 2005
The Bowery Poetry Club (Red Hen Press – reading to promote anthology), October 2004
(complete readings list available upon request)
Selected (juried) Conference Papers and Presentations
(full list available upon request)
“Women from Away,” Reading/Panel participant, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, September 2017
“Four Weddings and an Inauguration: Occasional Poetry,” Panel moderator and participant, AWP Conference (Minneapolis, MN), April 2015
“Collaboration and Convergence: Chapbooks at the Crossroads,” Panelist participant, AWP Conference (Seattle, WA), March 2014
“Ear Candy: Teaching the Pleasures of Poetic Meter,” Panel moderator and chair, AWP Conference, March 2012
“Hands On: A Conversation about DIY and Craft Culture in a Digital World,” Roundtable moderator and chair, AWP Conference, February 2011
“Making Chapbooks in the Advanced Poetry Workshop,” Pedagogy Forum, AWP Conference (Chicago), February 2009 (Selected as one of the 20 Best Pedagogy Papers for 2009)
“Passing the Draft,” Associated Writing Programs Conference Pedagogy Papers and Forum, April 2005
“Chapbooks: Who Publishes Them, Who Distributes Them, Who Reads Them?” Roundtable moderator and chair, Associated Writing Programs Conference, March 2004
“Finding Time: Apprenticeship, Obscurity, and the Physical Life of Language,” Presenter (Panel: “Exploring the Visual Life of Language”), Associated Writing Programs Conference, February 2003
“Introduction to Everything: Teaching the Multi-Genre Creative Writing Class,” Panel Chair and Speaker, Associated Writing Programs Conference, March 2002
“Getting Carried Away: Research and Obsession in the Poetic Sequence,” Panel Chair and Speaker, Associated Writing Programs Conference, April 2001
“The (Dis)order of Perception: Cubist Action in William Carlos Williams’ Poetry,” Image and Text: American Creativity and the Relationship Between Writing and The Visual Arts, Wichita State University, January 2000
(pre-2000 work available upon request)
Workshops and Presentations (Selected)
“Making a Mess to Clear the Way: Radical Re-vision of Poetry,” New Hampshire Writers Project Writers Day, March 2012
“WAC Potluck/Designing Effective Writing Workshops,” PSU, January 2006 (WAC)
“Safe Classrooms and Hostile Learning Environments: Rhetoric and Realities,” Faculty Day, PSU, August 2005
“Pain 101,” a short essay read at a panel on Sensitive Issues in the Classroom, PSU, March 2004
“Responding to Student Writing: Strategies for Success,” PSU (WAC), February 2004
Master Workshops in Poetry Writing, New Hampshire Writers’ Project Summer Institute for Teachers, July 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
Poetry Workshops, “Middle/High School Voices” Conference, PSU, May 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011; also Fall 2006
“Radical Revision: Making a Mess to Clear the Way,” at the Write Now! conference (Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire), May 2002, Bethlehem, NH
“Moonshots and Metaphors: One Poet’s Obsession with the Apollo Space Program,” talk and poetry reading, Society for Scholarly Dialogue, Plymouth State College, February 2002
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
Playa Residency Program, Aug/Sep 2014, Jan/Feb 2015, May 2019, Jan 2022
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, April 2015
Vermont Studio Center, July 2010
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Feb-March, 2008
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, May 2008
Liz Ahl 