Poetry & Prose

Current and selected work.

Online & In Print

 Forthcoming (Winter 2026-27), Watching the Basketball Game on Mute While Listening to the Poet at the Zoom Poetry Reading, Ploughshares 

Disaster Ode, Massachusetts Review

Vain Tenderness, The Land of Rape and Honey, The Common

At the Basilica Notre-Dame, The Common

Loves Poem, Pain, Copper Nickel

Ms. Interpretation, Hunger Mountain 

Faux Scientific Data: An Excerpt from Spare, Permafrost 

Easy Shooting, Conduit 

Self-Portrait with Antanagoge, Denver Quarterly

Action Dress, Up the Staircase Quarterly (video)

Here is the Sea to Drive You Home, WSQ/Feminist Press
Migration

Flame’s Dream, Juked

Gameplay, Blunderbuss
Who Will Be Frenchy?

Three Poems, Poor Claudia

Needs Citation, THE FEM

Animul Sonnut, Bennington Review
Time Alone

Sonnet for Rivulet, Drunken Boat (audio)

Drowning, Up the Staircase Quarterly (audio)

Animul/Flame, So to Speak
Instructions
Flame’s Lessons

The Call, Café Review
Todd
Soldier

Notes I & II, Horse Less Review (video)

Cemetery Hill, DASH

Ophelia as Sea Urchin, Indiana Review

Char’s Sorrow, Your Impossible Voice
Char’s Lesson
Flame’s Relief

Cut, Never Eaten, LUMINA
Neither Amber Nor Rust

 

Ophelia as Sea Urchin Looks at Photographs, Spoon River Poetry Review

Animul & other poems Jet Fuel Review

The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard,
The Feminist Wire

What Is Your Desiderata, Curator

Polyester: A Legacy, Requited Journal
Polyester: A Legacy
Polyester: A Legacy

Waking Life, Stirring: A Literary Collection

A Conversation with Michelle Lewis and Jeffery Morgan, Rain Taxi

All poems ©2017 Michelle Lewis

Image ©2017 Ariel Hall