poetry – Liz Makes Stuff

Poem: salt water

I wrote this and don’t really know what to do with it. It’s a love poem, of course.

This piece was published in 2013 in Burningword Literary Journal. I have it linked on my Poetry page, but it looks like you need an account on that website to see this now. So, here you go! On the commute homethe clouds form a tableatop four grain silos,each grand, different. It reminds me of you.Continue reading “Poem: Farmland”

Issue 1 of roam is here!

I can’t wait to share this with you.

Poem: swallowing sounds like boiling water

A poem that I had published a while ago. Enjoy!

Workshop Wednesday: So I had a pretty big day, and then everything went sideways

The whole world is not okay, but I am. For now. In this moment. And that’s all I can ask for.

Poem: Chirality, or, I asymmetrically create my body against genetics

A man-made canal in the spring. The trees on the other shore are bare

Something new I’ve been noodling about how I deal with trauma.

On poetry, or, a story of how I fell in love with myself again

A running path curving to the left out of sight as the sun crests the horizon.

I am still learning, and living, and loving, and, more often than not, coping.

Liz Writes: Some poetry

Here is one of the poems I read at a recent open mic.

…Like a Patient Etherized Upon a Table

Let’s get something straight. I write fiction. Fiction is what I do. Novels, short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction (it made me crazy, but I did it). But every now and then, when the moon is at its apex in the eastern sky and the crickets are singing and there’s beer in my belly and theContinue reading “…Like a Patient Etherized Upon a Table”

The first issue of NEAT. is now live!

Hellooooo all of my beautiful followers. I promised you yesterday that I would have news about NEAT. Well, lo and behold, we are LIVE. NEAT. started as a conversation in the beginning of July between myself and my friend TM Keesling. We asked each other: How can we create something that we will be proudContinue reading “The first issue of NEAT. is now live!”