About
LISA L. MOORE has published five books of literary history and criticism, including Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in venues including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Diversity and Democracy, Critical Inquiry, Eighteenth-Century Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Feminist Studies. She is also the author of the poetry collection 24 Hours of Men (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), and has published poems in Zócalo Public Square, Waxing and Waning, Nimrod International Journal, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review and other journals and magazines.
Recent Readings, Talks, and Conversations
Joynes Endowment Reading Series
The University of Texas at Austin • February 21, 2024.
Blackouts and Hybrid Texts: A Dialogue With Justin Torres.
How Lesbians Saved Poetry
Toronto Metropolitan University • March 13, 2023
Celebrating the Establishment of the new LGBTQ2S Minor. A duet with Dr. Bo Ruberg, who presented on their book “Sex Dolls at Sea.”
Symposium on Poetic Form
Southern Methodist University • March 18-19, 2024
“The Heroic Sonnet Crown vs. Anti-Black Violence.”
Fine Arts Work Center Workshop Reading
Provincetown, MA • July 4, 2024.
“Sound Sonnet and Other Poems”
Wild Patience Reading
21C Hotel, Kansas City, MO • February 9, 2024.
Twenty poet moms draw from a variety of poetic practices and traditions, sharing work that occupies the overlapping spaces of our lives—war zone and garden, city and body, climate and house, populace and child.
Writer-to-Writer Alumni Panel
Kansas City, MO • February 10, 2024.
Association of Writing Programs (AWP) Conference
