Poems

Selected Works

Two poems in Jasper and an interview with poet Lisa Hammond

“Hydrangeas,” winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry

“Elizabeth Warren Dreams of Kissing Babies”

Two poems in Waccamaw
“Green Hand”

“Second” (later collected in Lily Watch)

“Lily Watch,” Tributaries at The Fourth River (later collected in Lily Watch)

Three poems in Wicked Alice (later collected in Goddess Suite)
“The Goddess Loads the Dishwasher”
“The Goddess Eats an Apple”
“The Goddess Reads a Legend”

Two poems in Redux
“The Goddess Cleans Out Her Purse” (later collected in Goddess Suite)

“Eleven”

“Divorce Song,” Jasper

“The Lizard Man of Lee County,” North Carolina Literary Review (later collected in Moving House)

“Swimming Lessons,” Literary Mama

“How to Identify Birds,” storySouth 

Lisa Hammond’s Poems Published in City of Columbia Poet Laureate Projects by Ed Madden

• “Eating Out,” Poems on the Menu, Pawley’s Front Porch, November 2022
• “Staples,” Prescription Poems, distributed in area pharmacies during National Pharmacy Week, October 2022
• “many moons,” Poems on the COMET, Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority, September 2020
• “Household Gods,” Free and Clear: House-Box Poems, April 2018.
• “Son,” Poems on the Comet, Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority, April 2017

Poetry Reading and Typewriter Poetry Project Poet, a project of the City of Columbia Poet

Laureate Ed Madden, South Carolina State House grounds, April 2018

Lisa Hammond’s poem “Household Gods,” published in Free and Clear: House-Box Poems, Joint National Poetry Month Project of Ed Madden, Poet Laureate of Columbia SC, and One Columbia for Arts and History (April 2018).