Lisa Allen Ortiz
@lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
writer - reader - citizen - really into vegetables - has horse problem - save the redwoods league - trees and tree shapes
Pinned
Sternocleidomastoid
space under a floating mind, a speck
in the sky faint as a heated up cloud—
a dim knowing: once there were
so many birds on so many wires.
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Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social
Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social
Got a manuscript? Send it to a supportive high quality press with integrity and sister-love! Send it to Perugia. And poetry always wins. @perugiapress.bsky.social
@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@catamaranlit.bsky.social So amazed to have this story recognized. Thank you marvelous Catamaran Literary Reader!
I’m so excited about this book!
Happy publication day to APOSTASIES & poet Holli Carrell! We appreciate everyone’s support along this publication path & those the book will connect with as it finds its readers & audiences. Brava, Holli! 🎉♥️🪩 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @bookmobile-itasca.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I’m so excited about this book!
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Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia, in collab with Smith College's Praxis Program. Jean Blakeman, our board president, interviewed Kamali about her experience as a Perugia intern. @hollicarrell.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social perugiapress.org/2025/09/a-co...
A Conversation with Perugia's Intern: Kamali Williams - Perugia Press
Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia Press, sponsored by the Praxis Program at Smith College. This is the […]
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September 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Kamali Williams recently completed a summer internship at Perugia, in collab with Smith College's Praxis Program. Jean Blakeman, our board president, interviewed Kamali about her experience as a Perugia intern. @hollicarrell.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social perugiapress.org/2025/09/a-co...
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Lisa Allen Ortiz has a new poem, “Furniture,” up in the latest Sixth Finch. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at sixthfinch.com/laortiz1.html. 💙🐦⬛🌿 @sixthfinch.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lisa Allen Ortiz has a new poem, “Furniture,” up in the latest Sixth Finch. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at sixthfinch.com/laortiz1.html. 💙🐦⬛🌿 @sixthfinch.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
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Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GUIDE TO THE EXHIBIT by Lisa Allen Ortiz. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GUIDE TO THE EXHIBIT by Lisa Allen Ortiz. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
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TONIGHT! An evening with Catamaran at Hakone Gardens, featuring Garden Issue writers, including Lisa Allen Ortiz! @catamaranlit.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
TONIGHT! An evening with Catamaran at Hakone Gardens, featuring Garden Issue writers, including Lisa Allen Ortiz! @catamaranlit.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social
Happy to be a part of this lovely magazine. sixthfinch.com
Sixth Finch
Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Megan Alpert, Michael Bazzett, Matt Daly, Chris Haven, Rebecca Hawkes, David Dodd Lee, Timothy Liu, Malia...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Happy to be a part of this lovely magazine. sixthfinch.com
#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.
Lisa Allen Ortiz’s author signing yesterday at AWP! 🖊️📖🌟 @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social #perugiapress
March 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.
The worst part of being a writer is sometimes you have to leave the house.
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The worst part of being a writer is sometimes you have to leave the house.
This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙)
poems.com/poem/sternoc...
poems.com/poem/sternoc...
Sternocleidomastoid
space under a floating mind, a speck
in the sky faint as a heated up cloud—
a dim knowing: once there were
so many birds on so many wires.
poems.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙)
poems.com/poem/sternoc...
poems.com/poem/sternoc...
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In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...
catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...