About Lisa Olstein and Gulf Coast

Today's poem is "Shimmer Here Shimmer"

from Gulf Coast

Lisa Olstein is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). A new book, Late Empire, is forthcoming in 2017. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Centrum, she is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
Other poems by Lisa Olstein in Verse Daily:
July 15, 2013: "Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top" "When we say specimen..."
August 24, 2009: "Was to Have Been Called Whip-poor-will" "Dog hears it..."
August 17, 2009: "[receding sphinx]" "I'm working with a common family of flower feeders. Many..."
Books by Lisa Olstein:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Olstein:
Seven poems
Five poems
Three poems
"Ready Regret"
"Blue Water Navy"
"Possibility of Repair"
Lisa Olstein on Facebook.
About Gulf Coast:

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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art * Department of English * University of Houston * Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily: abuelo.shtml
February 19, 2016: "After the Girl" by Amy Woolard
February 18 2016: "Observations from The Base" by Julie Bloemeke
February 17 2016: "The Horses" by Kenneth Hart
February 15 2016: "Abuelo" by Ocean Vuong
December 20, 2015: "Do Birds Sing from Sheer Exuberance" by Paul Jenkins
December 18, 2015: "Pond" by Bianca Lech
September 10, 2014: "Sol in Leo" by Sam Ross
September 9, 2014: "Exodus" by Robert Whitehead
September 8, 2014: "Spontaneous Human Combustion" by Erica Wright
May 10, 2013: "animal, vegetable, mineral" by Marty McConnell
May 9, 2013: "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" by Mary Biddinger
August 23, 2012: "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot
August 18, 2012: "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone
August 15, 2012: "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen
August 14, 2012: "Wright Park" by Rick Barot
August 13, 2012: Two poems by Simone Muench
December 21, 2011: "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney
December 20, 2011: "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011: "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010: "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010: "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010: "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010: "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok

March 9, 2008: "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello

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