Lisa Allen Ortiz

🤩 Can’t wait!

Lisa Allen Ortiz has a new poem, “Furniture,” up in the latest Sixth Finch. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at sixthfinch.com/laortiz1.html. 💙🐦‍⬛🌿 @sixthfinch.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection GUIDE TO THE EXHIBIT by Lisa Allen Ortiz. Find more prompts, poems & discussion questions in our reading companions & check out Ortiz’s book & others in our bookshop (linktree in bio). @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

They’re definitely eye-ing the photographer! The world looks at itself. And chatters about it!

TONIGHT! An evening with Catamaran at Hakone Gardens, featuring Garden Issue writers, including Lisa Allen Ortiz! @catamaranlit.bsky.social @lisaallenortiz.bsky.social

Sixth Finch Sixth Finch: a quarterly online journal of poetry and art. The current issue features poems by Megan Alpert, Michael Bazzett, Matt Daly, Chris Haven, Rebecca Hawkes, David Dodd Lee, Timothy Liu, Malia...

Happy to be a part of this lovely magazine. sixthfinch.com

Thank you! (Also: #vegan. Plant-powered 25 hour fascist-fighting leadership.)

#perugiapress 🥹 And crazy beautiful AWP.

The worst part of being a writer is sometimes you have to leave the house.

Sternocleidomastoid space under a floating mind, a speck in the sky faint as a heated up cloud— a dim knowing: once there were so many birds on so many wires.

This is not new news, but I noticed the norm around here is to pin something good at the top of our pages. By norm, I mean it’s what chen chen does. (Thanks to all you friends, poets, writers and publishers for being here. 💙)

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The Garden Issue 2025 — Catamaran Literary Reader

I have a short story in this beautiful, bountiful issue of Catamaran. Check it out! catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...

In our Special Garden Issue, explore lush literary works with settings that span public gardens, imaginary gardens, themes of flowers, plants, and the organic world, alongside visual artwork from landscape & still life paintings to abstraction and realism.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...

Oh my gosh! Wrong horsie Joelle! It’s YOU Joell Dunlap! (I have an auntie Joellewho rides horses too.) I was too excited because it’s kind of a boring social media experience without horses in it. 💕 Welcome! ☁️

Yay! Horse content! Bookie is on here too. He’ll follow you. Love you Auntie!

I know! Dude has talent, brains AND swagger.

I got creeped out by this too … but is it because we used to follow potus and Vp… and the accounts changed hands? Anyway, I’m not going over there anymore. Happy that you’re here, Robin Ekiss! Admire you so. Your existence is a comfort in hard times!

That’s what those things are!

Brothers and sisters, Brother printers are very reliable. No bells and whistles. Black and white/ double sided draft machines. Had mine decades.

Same! Little emotional-insight-perspective-humanity meals. Also: poems. Nutrition and music= perf week.