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Poetry. The rhythmically grounded, formally varied poems of Lisa Rosenberg's second collection invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies that surround us, whether fantastic or ordinary, subatomic or cosmic in scale: odes to Pi and snowflake formation; meditations on urchins and orbital mechanics, and an interwoven series of…
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Lisa Rosenberg’s background as a physicist and space program engineer informs poems that probe the beauties and mysteries of existence.
I first encountered her work in 2022 when she read in the Virtual STEM Poetry Series sponsored by Farmingdale State College in New York. Her poems are vivid, juxtaposing biology and cosmology: “The aster blooms. The supernova cools.” They are also rich in sound repetitions (“blooms,” “cools”) and musicality.
In Weeds and Stars, Rosenberg both invents new poetic forms and makes existing ones—like the sonnet, prose poem, villanelle, pantoum, and cento—her own. Her book came out in 2026 and…
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