From the BU Creative Writing Blog:
We’re delighted to share that Lisa Hiton has recently published her gorgeous poem “Dream of My Father’s Shiva, Atlantis, 1450/3074″ in Vinyl!  In addition, Lisa was a semi-finalist for the Pamet River Prize with YesYes Books, an annual contest for full-length books of poetry or prose.
Congratulations, Lisa!

From the BU Creative Writing announcement:

Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) has recently published two poems.  “Dream of My Father’s Shiva, Auschwitz, 1942″ appears in Leveler, accompanied by some thoughts on the poem from the editors. “Lethargy” is in Lambda Literary Review, and we found it particularly relevant in light of the tragedies in Orlando.

It begins:

I am ill with history.
With watching it happen
and not belonging to it. In the efforts of
lesbianism, I have fallen
asleep.

Read the rest of the poem here.

Congratulations, Lisa!  And thanks for sharing your work with us.

#lethargy #lesbianism #PulseOrlando #Orlando

From AWP's Newsletter:

AWP offers three annual scholarships of $500 each to emerging writers who wish to attend a writers’ conference, center, retreat, festival, or residency. The scholarships are applied to fees for winners who attend one of the member programs in AWP’s Directory of Conferences & Centers. Winners and six finalists also receive a one-year individual membership in AWP.

The 2016 winner in poetry is Lisa Hiton for her submission, "Dislocated Cities". Of Lisa Hiton’s submission, judge Tarfia Faizullah wrote the following:
"These poems experience the concept of time broadly, deeply, and specifically. I’m impressed by the vivid and careful precision in these works as well as the patience of the author who wrote them. There is elegantly handled formal restraint here, but also a wild and vast reckoning with our histories and how we love others through and with them. How do we negotiate ourselves to our own histories and those of others? This author’s poems are beautiful and nuanced responses to that question."
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Runners-Up in Poetry
“Dear Ghost and Other Poems” by Annah Browning
“At Eye Level” by Jenny Xie

You can now read "Dream of My Father's Shiva, Auschwitz, 1942" in Leveler. Beside the poem, the editors commentary begins:  

"It’s impossible to say for sure, but it’s unlikely a Shiva could have been conducted upon a death in Auschwitz. Not that it would dramatically change the workings of the poem, but we think this Shiva is part of the dream, the speaker’s dream of the aftermath of her father’s death in unspeakable circumstances.If this is true, the poem, as the Shiva would, serves as an opportunity to mourn this death in a way that would have been impossible as it happened, and perhaps also nearly impossible now. As dreams go, elements of horror work their way in, turning the unimaginable to the imagined, as visual and sonic elements carry the core of the poem’s imagery. The speaker hears the fanning of a windmill and the humming of air. She sees a “relentless field,” a mass grave site really, and smokestacks―perhaps the clearest symbol of death when thinking of the Holocaust[...]"

"Pastoral" is featured in the second issue of Prodigal. Founded by Jordan Zandi, the second issue of Prodigal features work by Frank Bidart, Ryo Yamaguchi, Lisa Hiton, Rebecca van Laer, Simeon Berry, Kara Krewer, Dana Levin, and others. 

Prodigal is edited by Jordan Zandi, writer of Solarium (Sarabande, 2016). You can purchase this issue of Prodigal and others online at their site, here.

From the BU Creative Writing announcement:

Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) has published two poems on Word Riot! 

Lisa’s poem “Dream of My Father’s Shiva, McCoy Park, 1976” is read by poet Richie Hofmann, who holds a BA from BU.  Richie recently published his first book of poetry.  At BU's University Professor's Program, he worked with Rosanna Warren.
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From the BU Creative Writing announcement: 

We’re happy to announce that Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) has just been published in The Adroit Journal!  Click here to read her poems “In Response to Trees” and “Variation on Testimony,” each accompanied by an audio-recording of Lisa reading her work.

Congratulations, Lisa!

From the BU Creative Writing announcement:

We’re pleased to announce that Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) has been nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize!  Visit Lisa’s website here, where you can take a look at her poetry and essay publications.

Congratulations, Lisa!

From the BU Creative Writing Blog:

We’re thrilled to see that Lisa Hiton’s poem, “Reaction Wood,” has been published in a special issue of The Literary Review!  The issue focuses on women’s studies, and editor Minna Proctor describes the work in it as “entirely exploratory, wildly diverse, gleefully inconclusive.” 


Hearty congrats, Lisa!