Lisa Ampleman is the author of three full-length poetry collections—Mom in Space, Romances, and Full Cry—and the chapbook I've Been Collecting This to Tell You, winner of the Wick chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including 32 Poems, Image, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and The Rumpus. She is the managing editor of The Cincinnati Review and the poetry series editor at Acre Books.

Other poems by Lisa Ampleman in Verse Daily:
September 14, 2020:   "Lady Pygmalion" "I made you in my image, curio..."
March 14, 2014:   "Murmuration" "A row of resting birds makes visible a distant power line..."
November 22, 2012:   "My Only Deftness" "You say that if you field-dress the turkey, steam rises..."

Other poems on the web by Lisa Ampleman:
"Unremarkable"
Two poems
Two poems
"Appropriate Care"
"Dead Ringer"
Two poems
"Venus"
"The Future Isn’t What It Once Was"
Four poems
Two poems

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About Mom in Space:

"In these moving and incisive poems and essays, body and planet are intertwined, mother and astronaut orbit one another, and the everyday and the miraculous are one and the same. Like a skilled pilot, Lisa Ampleman expertly navigates through fertility clinics and lunar lava tubes, through Minecraft and spacecraft, through history and memory and earthrise."
—Catherine Pierce

"Mom in Space intertwines lyricism and sonic play alongside a deep investigation of the history of space flight and the men and women who've left the earth and come back changed. It's a riveting consideration of the threats to life on our planet and the thrills and consequences of our desire to explore the worlds beyond."
—Nancy Reddy