LYN LIFSHIN’s books of poetry include Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness, The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian (both Texas Review Press), and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press). She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

www.lynlifshin.com

Three Days Before My Mother's Birthday

by Lyn Lifshin, May 2010 (Issue 413)

Facing, For Once, Where I'm Going

by Lyn Lifshin, February 2009 (Issue 398)

Do I Really Have To Write About What Seems Most Scary?

by Lyn Lifshin, October 2007 (Issue 382)

Like When I Read About The Other Side Of The Moon Landing

by Lyn Lifshin, April 2004 (Issue 340)

Sultry, Humid, Running To The Metro

by Lyn Lifshin, December 2003 (Issue 336)

Sometimes I Think It Was Your Gone Leg

by Lyn Lifshin, February 2003 (Issue 326)

My Mother Hated The Song Of The Whales

by Lyn Lifshin, May 2002 (Issue 317)

Ladies' Room, National Archives

by Lyn Lifshin, January 2001 (Issue 301)

Dropping The Bottle Of Perfume My Mother Always Wore

by Lyn Lifshin, March 1998 (Issue 267)

Carl's Department Store Bathroom

by Lyn Lifshin, October 1997 (Issue 262)

The Can Of Paint

by Lyn Lifshin, September 1997 (Issue 261)

That Other August 6

by Lyn Lifshin, April 1997 (Issue 256)

Poetry By Lyn Lifshin

by Lyn Lifshin, November 1996 (Issue 251)

He Said In The Hospital It

by Lyn Lifshin, October 1995 (Issue 238)

Poetry By Lyn Lifshin

by Lyn Lifshin, February 1995 (Issue 230)

The President's Arms Are Like Oak Branches

by Lyn Lifshin, April 1994 (Issue 220)

Taking My Mother To The Bathroom

by Lyn Lifshin, December 1993 (Issue 216)

The Mad Girl Is Flip, Uses Words

by Lyn Lifshin, August 1993 (Issue 212)

Next Door My Neighbor Is Moving

by Lyn Lifshin, June 1993 (Issue 210)

With You Lying There On The Other Side Of The Bed

by Lyn Lifshin, March 1992 (Issue 196)