When the World Shows a Wound, Poetry Shows a Light March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 by LisaHiggs </p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-417" class="post-417 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2022/08/21/local-arts-exhibition-and-poetry-loop/" rel="bookmark">Local Arts Exhibition and Poetry Loop</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2022/08/21/local-arts-exhibition-and-poetry-loop/" title="9:29 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-08-21T21:29:03+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">August 21, 2022</time><time class="updated" datetime="2022-08-22T13:48:21+00:00" itemprop="dateModified">August 22, 2022</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Heart of Our City Exhibition and Poetry Loop</span><br /> </strong>September 22, 2022 through October 15, 2022<br /> The Chateau Theater<br /> 15 1st St SW, Rochester, Minnesota</p> <p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong><span style="color: #993300;">Opening Reception and Reading</span><br /> </strong><span style="color: #000000;">Thursday, September 22, 2022</span></span><br /> <span style="color: #000000;">6 p.m. – Reading and Artist Recognition</span></p> <p>What songs can we sing? What praise can we raise? What thanks can we give for things in the world that seem to go right, despite the challenges we see around us? In the <strong>Heart of Our City Exhibition</strong>, local writers and photographers answer these questions in meaningful ways that resonate with our slow emergence from the pandemic.</p> <p><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/heart-of-our-city/">Full information available here!</a></p> <p>This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It also is partially funded by a Start-Up Event Grant from the Rochester Downtown Alliance and Destination Medical Center.</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-374" class="post-374 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2019/05/01/readings-schedule-for-august-2019/" rel="bookmark">Readings Schedule for August 2019</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2019/05/01/readings-schedule-for-august-2019/" title="8:10 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-05-01T20:10:35+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">May 1, 2019</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>Two readings have been scheduled for the weekend of August 24-25, 2019 with my good friends and amazing poets, John McCarthy and Tracy Zeman.</p> <p>August 24, 2019 – Cafe Steam, Rochester MN – 7:30 p.m.</p> <p>August 25, 2019 – Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN – 5 p.m.</p> <p>I hope to see you there!</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-355" class="post-355 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/08/26/new-critical-work/" rel="bookmark">New Critical Work</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/08/26/new-critical-work/" title="1:14 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-08-26T13:14:51+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">August 26, 2018</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-08-26T13:15:45+00:00" itemprop="dateModified">August 26, 2018</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>Terribly excited to have an essay on Ada Limon’s most recent collection, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/147598/one-little-mortal-body"><em>The Carrying</em></a>, online at the Poetry Foundation. Also, I have an interview with <a href="http://www.theadroitjournal.org/blog/2018/8/6/im-my-best-most-critical-editor-a-conversation-with-eloisa-amezcua">Eloisa Amezcu</a>a at The Adroit Journal. And I hear that the first proof on <em>Earthen Bound</em>, my new chapbook with Red Bird, will be in the mail shortly. A great writing month, this August.</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-351" class="post-351 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/07/02/more-keeping-up-to-date/" rel="bookmark">More Keeping Up to Date</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/07/02/more-keeping-up-to-date/" title="10:36 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-07-02T22:36:25+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">July 2, 2018</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-07-02T22:36:44+00:00" itemprop="dateModified">July 2, 2018</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>It’s been a great 2018 so far – thanks to the editors and staff at <em>Zone 3, Slant</em>, and <em><a href="http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=higgs#Lisa%20Higgs">One</a></em> for publishing some of my poetry this year. Plus, my chapbook is off to the designers after being expertly reviewed by my editor at Red Bird. I can’t wait to see what loveliness they come up with!</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-333" class="post-333 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/01/16/poem-in-the-latest-issue-of-cumberland-river-review/" rel="bookmark">Poem in the latest issue of Cumberland River Review</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2018/01/16/poem-in-the-latest-issue-of-cumberland-river-review/" title="1:54 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-01-16T13:54:32+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">January 16, 2018</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>So thankful to the editorial staff at Cumberland River Review for publishing “Riprap” in their latest issue. Check it out here: <a href="http://crr.trevecca.edu/article/riprap">http://crr.trevecca.edu/article/riprap</a></p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-331" class="post-331 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/20/a-new-chapbook-with-red-bird-chaps/" rel="bookmark">A New Chapbook with Red Bird Chaps!</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/20/a-new-chapbook-with-red-bird-chaps/" title="2:34 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-12-20T14:34:41+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">December 20, 2017</time><time class="updated" datetime="2017-12-10T14:36:14+00:00" itemprop="dateModified">December 10, 2017</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>I’m so pleased to announce that <a href="https://redbirdchapbooks.com/">Red Bird Chapbooks</a> will be publishing my third chapbook sometime in 2018! I can’t wait to begin the editorial process come January.</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-329" class="post-329 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/10/keeping-up-to-date/" rel="bookmark">Keeping Up to Date</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/10/keeping-up-to-date/" title="2:34 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-12-10T14:34:12+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">December 10, 2017</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>Just realized how long it has been since I’ve updated on my publications, which I guess is what happens when you move in the middle of the year. Thanks to the following publications for including my work in the past year:</p> <p>Midway Journal: <a href="http://midwayjournal.com/what-you-intend-me-to-be/">What You Intend Me to Be</a><br /> Hawaii Pacific Review: <a href="https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2017/02/16/from-conversations-imagined/">From Conversations Imagined</a><br /> Also new work in the just-published <a href="http://waterstonereview.com/">Water~Stone Review</a> – congrats on 20 years! And work forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Borderlands, Zone 3, and Cumberland River Review.</p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-325" class="post-325 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/10/pleased-to-have-work-in-the-sharkpack-annual-longform/" rel="bookmark">Pleased to have work in the Sharkpack Annual: Longform</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/12/10/pleased-to-have-work-in-the-sharkpack-annual-longform/" title="2:24 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-12-10T14:24:37+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">December 10, 2017</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>It’s not often that you have journals willing to tackle multi-page sonnet sequences, so thanks to the editors at Sharkpack for including my work in their annual edition. Check out “<a href="http://sprannual.com/iv/teeth/higgs-the.html">The King’s Circus</a>.”</p> <p> </p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-meta"> <span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/category/events/" rel="category tag">Events</a></span> </footer><!-- .entry-meta --> </div><!-- .inside-article --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article id="post-320" class="post-320 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events" itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' itemscope='itemscope'> <div class="inside-article"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/07/19/thankful-for-2nd-prize-in-the-basil-bunting-international-poetry-contest/" rel="bookmark">Thankful for 2nd Prize in the Basil Bunting International Poetry Contest</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://lisahiggs.com/2017/07/19/thankful-for-2nd-prize-in-the-basil-bunting-international-poetry-contest/" title="2:38 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-07-19T14:38:59+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">July 19, 2017</time></a></span> <span class="byline"><span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">by <a class="url fn n" href="http://lisahiggs.com/author/lisahiggs/" title="View all posts by LisaHiggs" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">LisaHiggs</span></a></span></span> </div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>Although I wasn’t able to make it to Newcastle for the Newcastle Poetry Festival to receive my 2nd Prize in person, I was so honored to have Ahern Warner select “Wild Honey Has the Scent of Freedom” for the Basil Bunting International Poetry Award. 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