Streetlight Magazine | Lisa Ryan | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/lisa/activity/ Activity feed for Lisa Ryan. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:18:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 041936b3ad0569a4f5af549cfc262870 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16328 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:44:37 -0400 Then I Returned to the House of the Slow Letting Go
 
I went out into the evening,
walked alone with my clippers
to dead-head the marigolds
the peonies, no longer spinning planets,
and the now brown-leafed […]

]]> 6e461c713eec79935a25016b4882704c Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16250 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:33:10 -0400 Links of Ladder
 
Higher than a hired man’s head,
a chain bubbles from the tree’s heart
and falling thirteen links, dares
a boy’s reaching, his pretending—
its original purpose unknown.
It is not a hanging […]

]]> 4ba50c7600ea699dd5b5828a549ed560 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16239 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:55:07 -0400 The Paperboy Sees No Wonder in It—
the Snow Giving off the Only Light at 6 AM
 
The boy could have lived forever
sliding down a hill, after watching cartoons.
Now the only cartoon is himself fa […]

]]> 84871de19733067b094d8140e8a56e05 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16225 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:13:21 -0400 losing the word
 
what is prayer

but our limbic words
offered
to an uncertain
trajectory,

the cave images
given language
from our dark cities.

i remember your prayer
outside memphis
whispered […]

]]> c9d326549a49041fd1bf470bcb09e50f Lisa Ryan's profile was updated https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/327/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 03:27:41 -0400 0 42329a232d531f52612371bf13b0fe79 Lisa Ryan changed their profile picture https://streetlightmag.com/activity/p/288/ Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:55:36 -0400 0 4a55e90f383e32410bd2ba67baa04542 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15437 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:22:20 -0400 3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.

Flowers in a Crystal Vase – Manet, 1882
 
At the members only showing
of flower paintings, we old folks
dress for comfort. Women in flats
and bo […]

]]> 2bc83c7276207a75f4b022c5b9d77d1a Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15294 Sun, 03 Apr 2016 18:07:45 -0400 We Always Called Him Fletcher
 
Never by his first name Albert, or Mr. Fletcher.
He was tall as a sugar pine, skin the color

of freckled walnuts, walked our whole
neighborhood hauling

an extension […]

]]> 363b44283031a06f2eafc6a549869468 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15319 Sun, 03 Apr 2016 04:28:30 -0400 The Sheets Pulled Over
 
When one thinks in love about love,
he’s doing what he shouldn’t. He will get it wrong.

What if everything were revealed?
The apples and milk on your mind

when we lay down in W […]

]]> 6a301e642d630fdf123b5a140e7758e5 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15342 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:26:51 -0500 Smoke
—translated from Theophile Gautier’s Emaux et Cemées, 1852-1872
 
Down there, under sheltering trees:
A hunchbacked hovel of the poor—
Walls crumbling; roof down on its knees.
Moss blots the thres […]

]]> 456ab3af87b2d88042643e679dc147e5 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15434 Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:19:43 -0400 2nd place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.

Rubble
 
The water found a home in our wreckage.
                 Our city, once a bastion of high times—
      colored lights on strings, avenue […]

]]> bb042f486e9083dab6b0b5955ec2e2a4 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=15432 Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:16:27 -0400 1st place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.

Hum
 
Out of the blue,
he gave her a recording.
She thought there was something
wrong with it, but they had only
slept together once,
she […]

]]> 5a1cd32cecf66656eae197f92d7e79fc Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16071 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:13:34 -0400 In His Own Right
A conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate and Charlottesville resident Charles Wright
What the city of Charlottesville, Virginia lacks in size it makes up for in culture. You won’t go ten minutes w […]

]]> c632ad187aea3b23ef4d5fc123c590cd Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16065 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:45:24 -0400 Phone Sex in Three Acts
 
Act I.

There is nothing noble about having phone sex
with your ex-girlfriend
in the bathroom of a friend’s apartment.

The shower curtain looks offended.
Tile ashamed to to […]

]]> 4dc2f1c6a0d15383bbba1907c24b95f7 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=16062 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:39:20 -0400 A Wild Thing And A Tended One
 
We can talk about these corduroy
pillows and how I want to shoot

marbles with the ball joint
of your right shoulder. Last time

I tried to tell you about the guy
who came […]

]]> 9ca3499490cae12c465afce7b3c7549e Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=9551 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 22:12:18 -0500 I’m creatively constipated. That’s right, all input and no output. Binging on poetry, nothing to show at writing group. Forget the fifth round of revisions on that damn poem that won’t cooperate. Not in […]

]]> fdc212a1f45ae69494eae4f6b94d032a Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=9064 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:15:06 -0500 A good friend and fellow writer recently introduced me to Medium. NOT the dead-people-seeing-housewife tv show. Medium is a digital publishing platform/story-telling community for writers to eng […]

]]> 3f49dc39591087d10af22ba5a116b0b4 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=8128 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:23:08 -0400 On August 7-10, I had the privilege of attending the Virginia Quarterly Review’s first writers’ conference, along with roughly 25-30 participants, at the Boar’s Head Inn right here in Charlottesville, VA. Three […]

]]> a2ccb01272db8610f47d4361ff3bffc6 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=7552 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:31:55 -0400 In high school I was an associate editor for our school’s art and lit magazine, Pen & Ink. We’d meet weekly to review submissions under the tutelage of our faculty advisor, whose love and gift for teaching English […]

]]> db65c0a1de03ea9cccf827b42ca49b92 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=7337 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:00:30 -0400 Charlottesville, Virginia, where Streetlight operates from, is full of Ph.D candidates, post-docs and masters students, thanks to Mr. Jefferson’s University. Amid all the academic types, a person without some […]

]]> 4b9a7b78dd3a2eb7a9caacba6b4b2e0b Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=6629 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 16:01:13 -0400 Another April means another month of celebrating poetry across the country. Admittedly, this surprises me every year. That many people care about poetry? Walt Whitman would slap me in the face, and he’d be […]

]]> d8235e92dccb539b9d55f687334569f5 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=2915 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:59:48 -0400 Meet Anna Bryant, a local painter/Montessori teacher/mother/wife/friend of mine. Currently, her exhibit, “Daily Feast”, is running at New Dominion Bookstore. I advise you to stop by when you’re downtown, but try […]

]]> 4192c8662ae4b2d11735a5cf417df65f Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=2332 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:26:42 -0400 I recently read a critique in New York magazine by Jerry Saltz about a current MoMA exhibit, “Photography and The American Civil War.” The piece mentioned Alexander Gardner, a Scottish-born war photographer famous […]

]]> 2fc66127ab911cada5b9d49416971d74 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17408 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:38:01 -0400 The Universe May Expand Forever
 
The fan blades spin large in your pupils,
imperturbable peepers as a pilot’s.
I am reflected in the corner of your eye,
feeding you, and we are just mesmerized, aren’t […]

]]> 3568466339c23ec9bb5fc4ec692b0ff6 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17420 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:42:32 -0500 Fence
for Margie
 
She built that fence
in the snow. All
we saw of her
was her red anorak
and the upward
flash of her tool, a
hammer. Later,
after her husband died
and we tried to visit
she wouldn’t co […]

]]> 8c85680de10daaa11b8b9a72bede3426 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17426 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:36:24 -0500 Lover’s Quarrel
 
1

Because you cling like cigarette smoke, thin and acrid, in the brim of my hat, as if
you know God lives on the addiction of our breath.

2

When the shadows finish wallpapering the […]

]]> 81bb23c47ee31f5ad7a57c97f862c31e Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17510 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:01:08 -0400 Katie on Fire
 
Sunset and silence,
chocolate bars and coffee—
Katie fingers rifle shells after dinner,
stacked in rows and flicked
the way a child does dominoes.
These mountains have a way
of messing wi […]

]]> 83c32778cbc6476b56e8e6f6c4ca9009 Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17505 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:52:10 -0400 Optional Yoga at Sunrise
 
We’re told to drop into each breath then release the air
like wind in the trees.

Outside, a windmill slices light. The murmuring pines
are all piñons. The desert flows into the […]

]]> c2bea16b7efe56ba493c49e480af808b Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=1142 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:29:51 -0400 I recently took a short trip to the beach to escape “buzz.” Do you know that sensation I’m referring to? Not the hum of a summer fly trapped in your kitchen, more like a ubiquitous sensory and informational showe […]

]]> a636b1f82e8dbb04a6aad492f7568c7e Lisa Ryan wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=17546 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:35:46 -0400 Teresa Lewis
 
They are raising amnesty
signs along the courthouse road
portraits with her missing
lateral incisor filled in
perhaps to make her look
more like themselves
perhaps taking back
the […]

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