

Welcome
I am a writer and reader and teacher and forever student.
IMy chapbook of poetry, Ponderings, is available here or at Finishing Line Press. I am in the process of writing a memoir about my late husband's long illness and eventual death from cancer. It is a story of my truce with grief.
WHAT'S UP NEXT?
THURSDAY APRIL 28
Poetry as Collage Workshop for the Stone Ridge Library
Library Poets Spring Celebration Reading
Marbletown Community Center
Free and open to the public
MARCH 23-26
AWP Conference
TUESDAY 12/21/21
4PM EST
Poetry Reading with several other amazing poets
Chiaroscuro: Poems for the Solstice
from THE POETRY BARN
Register HERE.
August 1-30, 2020 Poetic Licence Exhibition
Arts Society of Kingston
Artwork by Terry Murray

Arts Mid-Hudson presents
POETS RESPOND TO ART
Gallery
Opening Reception and Poetry Reading:
April 22, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.
Check out The Poetry Distillery's latest echapbook.
My poem DINNER artwork by Anna GIlmore

Ponderings by Lisa St. John is a powerful look into the relationship between mother and daughter. Here is a poet who is not afraid of confrontation, and her courageous poems revisit the past where "There is something to be said for learning in a world of daughters. I am proud of my scars because they came from my mother. Ma, I never meant to love you."
Leah Maines Publisher, Finishing Line
