• The poems of Lisa Vihos have appeared in many poetry journals and anthologies. She is the third-place poetry winner in the 2024 Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest. Winner of the 2023 Hal Prize, she has four chapbooks, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and numerous awards from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, including first-prize in the Wisconsin People & Ideas poetry contest in 2015. In 2020, she was named Sheboygan’s first poet laureate. In 2022 she published her first novel, a historical fiction about a late Renaissance woman artist, The Lone Snake: The Story of Sofonisba Anguissola. 

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Bodies of Water

We sit on the veranda at assisted livinglooking across the fake pond at the trees.Their reflections shiver as a breeze ripplesthe murky surface of the water. You... Read more.
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Annunciation

When I got to her earthen room,I thought, Oh God, no. Not this one. Too young, too fragile, for this word-made-flesh deal you’ve got brewing. I was still a vapor... Read more.
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Lesson at the Checkpoint

Please be advised that snow globes are not allowed through the security check point.                                                          ... Read more.