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I am a reader, writer, teacher, and forever student. Swallowing Stones is available at Amazon and Kelsay Books. If you would like a signed copy, please purchase it here. Ponderings is available at Finishing Line Press, or you can purchase a signed copy here. My memoir, The Dead Folder, is currently looking for a publication home.

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Everything is connected; the trick is observing the connections.

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"...disarming charm, a range of poetic approaches both formal and free, and a gloriously fierce feminist rage toward freedom... ." --Annie Finch

"St. John knows the power of the poetic line and uses it to make us present to her feelings. In subject, in craft, these poems are a gift." --Myra Shapiro

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Wonderful review of Swallowing Stones by Sundress Publications. 

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"The stones she swallows are so hot they sizzle, finding form in .deft, meticulous, and precisely chosen words that hit like a chainsaw." -Anne Pyburn Craig

Review from The Bluestone Press

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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 

 

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Listen to my interview on Kate Fishman's podcast!

Animation by Anna Gilmore. Showcased at

Woodstock Film Festival 2018.

READINGS

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 2:00PM

IWWG Featured Author with Open Mic on ZOOM

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

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