Poet and recovering engineer Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California, and has been awarded an upcoming Djerassi Residency. Lisa speaks, consults, and instructs, bringing tools of science and art to industry, education, and public discourse. Recent publications include Ruminate, Organizational Aesthetics, and California Fire & Water: a Climate Crisis Anthology.
I am used to eliding or implying connections, but am finding this moment messy.
At the end of my first summer home from college, my sister and I joined two friends from high school for a short camping trip in Yosemite Valley. Vernal Falls is a moderate day hike from the valley floor, and we set out that first morning, ready for the cool air of the Mist Trail. […]
The fish coasters wanted a poem, but they’re getting an essay. They wanted — I wanted — the tactile imagery of period plastics: vinyl upholstery, Melmac plates, Formica counters, and artificial houseplants with dusty folds and seams. I wanted to nap in the hush of carpeted rooms, to swim in the wishful Kodachrome hues of […]
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