Teaching

Online poetry publications
“The Goddess Loads the Dishwasher,” Wicked Alice
“The Goddess Eats an Apple”
“The Goddess Reads a Legend”

“The Goddess Cleans Out Her Purse,” Redux
“Eleven”

“Swimming Lessons,” Literary Mama

“How to Identify Birds,” storySouth

Lisa Hammond’s Moving House is a startlingly beautiful first collection of poems made of careful noticing, especially of the natural world. But more important than the naturalist’s accurate observation is the depth and delicacy (an oddly effective pairing) of an imagination that, in her best poems, transforms self and reader. —Susan Ludvigson

I love how attentive to the world these poems are, the way they illuminate the small wonders that surround us. Lisa Hammond is a gifted poet, and this collection should gain her many appreciative readers. —Ron Rash

Available from Texas Review Press and from Amazon

Cooking Shrimp

Off Highway 17, watch for the old man
with the red truck, the handwritten produce sign:
tomatoes, watermelon, peaches, shrimp.

Think who will eat them. Sharing shrimp
is a measure of your love: half pound apiece.
A pound for true devotion.

At home, wash each shrimp, the water just above
a trickle. Be careful: the sharp edge can catch
you, the soft place on your palm.

Season the boil with Old Bay. Fresh shrimp
still remember tidewaters, the taste of brine
an echo you must outweigh.

Pull off each shell, hear the crunch of sand
under your feet. Taste black mud, salt air,
each dark vein a history.