Poems & Essays

Selected Poems

O Cache Luxurious,” Red Eft Review, July 24, 2024. 

Eclipse Glimpse,” Landmarks Blog, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, May 31, 2024. 

“Twenty-Six Blossoms,Zócalo Public Square, Arizona State University, Sept. 24, 2021.

“Eileen May White Moore,” I Scream Social Anthology Vol. 2, ed. Claire Bowman, Schandra Abigail Mehta, and Annar Verøld. Host Publications (Austin, TX, 2020), p. 99. Volume selected for City of Austin Mayor’s Book Club. Poem reprinted in The Sundress Blog, June 17, 2020.

“Plato’s Right,” Feminist Formations, vol. 32 no. 1 (Spring 2020), p. 165.

“Hyacinth” and “A Church in Bronzeville,” Hairstreak Butterfly Review, Summer 2018.

“112 Miles from Karnes Immigrant Detention Center, Karnes City, Texas.” Literary Mama, November 2016.

“Moan and Low.” Tinderbox Poetry Journal vol. 2 Issue 1, June 2015.

“Cowgirl Filibuster: Couplets for Heroic Texas Women.” Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week, July 5 2013. Reprinted on Alice Walker, The Official Website, 9 Poetic Fingers, and Split This Rock Poetry Database.

“Meditation for After an Earthquake.” Poem and visual art collaboration with artist Joel Haber. Broadsided Japan Issue (June 2011).

Selected Essays

The Future of Lesbian Genders.” Genders 1:1 (Spring 2016).

“Looking Back at Barbara Jordan,” QT Voices: The Magazine of LGBTQ Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Issue 7 (July 2022), QT Deep Dive. Republished in Not Even Past (Aug. 10, 2022).

“Every 12 Hours a New World,” The End of Austin (ed. Randy Lewis), Sheltering in a Weird Place Issue, April 2020.

“Subverting the Girlie Calendar: February.” Ms. Magazine Blog, Feb. 1, 2015.

“An Almost Unheard Low Note: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 August 2014. Republished on Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation.

“On Judy Grahn’s `Mental.” Short Takes on Long Poems volume 5, at Length Magazine, 7 April 2014.

“It Is An Apple: An Interview With Judy Grahn.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 August 2013.

“The Dream of a Common Bookstore.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 20 April 2013. Cited in Shelf Awareness.

“Sister Arts: On Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Others.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 February 2013. Cited in Harriet, the Blog (National Poetry Foundation), Poets.org, Feministing (3 mentions). Reprinted in That Peculiar Affirmative: On the Social Life of Poems (2019).

Interviews & Media

Lisa Moore is Picking Up What They’re Putting Down,” Life and Letters, The University of Texas at Austin, September 21, 2023.

Positive Values” and “Social Competencies,” short films produced by SHIFT at UT, 

"View from the Precipice: Lisa Moore Reflects on Thirty Years of Queers and Queer Studies at UT,” Audio QT Podcast hosted by Karma Chávez, December 2022.

Interviewed for Austin Poets Profile, KVRX Radio, March 23 2021.

Poets Protest Guns in the Classroom,” Poets and Writers (July/August 2018).

Interview with CBC Radio host Dave White, CBC-Whitehorse, March 14, 2018.

Texas Author Will Join Evening of Poetry,” The Whitehorse Star, March 14, 2018.

Queer Currents podcast, hosted by Chadwick Roberts and Katie Peel, Episode 102, March 1, 2108.

Q&A With Lisa Moore,” Hothouse Literary Magazine, Nov. 7, 2017.

Aural Literature National Poetry Month Podcast, Austin Public Library, April 2017.

Audrey White, “The Vagaries of Love: How Poetry and Queer Movements Give Each Other Names,” Autostraddle, April 20 2015.

Interviewed on In Perspective: Women, Gender and Sexuality, KUT Radio In Perspectives Series, April 2015.

Harvey Milk, 40 Years Later.” 15-Minute History Podcast. Not Even Past/Hemispheres. November 26, 2018. Rebroadcast on KCSF San Francisco and Magdalena Soul.

For a complete bibliography, see Lisa’s CV.