Lisbeth White
Writing for an Earth beloved
Publications/Media
Books
American Sycamore
Winner of 2022 Perugia Press Prize
September 2022
Poetry as Spellcasting:
Poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power
Edited by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill & Lisbeth White
North Atlantic Books, May 2023
Poetry
"Origin of Water"
The Fourth River, Summer Issue 0.11,
July 2021
Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, vol 38.1, Poetry Prize Finalist issue, May 2021
Split This Rock, The Quarry, Poem of the Week, March 2021
"American Sycamore," "Hallowing, Or the Black Body Returns"
Yemassee Journal, Monthly Spotlight, November 2020
"Awakening of Stones: An Outline"
Blue Mountain Review, Issue 18, April 2020
Apogee Lit, Issue 13, December 2019
"Block"
Kweli Journal, May 2019
"Victim, Survivor, Immaculate" (excerpt from "Calypso")
The Rumpus, ENOUGH Series, June 2018
Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Scarlet Tanager Press, October 2018
Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora Vol. 44.1, Fall 2018
Prose
Nine Winds (or, I am only ever writing about love)
Green Mountains Review Vol. 32.1, April 2021
Media
Writings in collaboration with Resonance Network & The Reverb
Announcing Apogee Broadside & Tote Initiative
Apogee Lit, Sept 2020
Episode 042: Wildish Wise Women
Healing Power of Poetry with Lisbeth White
The Magic of Time and Space in Being and in Writing
BIO
Photo by Sarah Wright Photography
Lisbeth White (she/her) is a lover of the earth, wanderer of lands, poet, expressive arts therapist, developmental editor, elemental energy healer, listener, and ancestor celebrant.
She is certain our collective liberation is intricately tied to ancestral earth wisdom and firmly believes each of us has boundless capacity within to be our own wisest healers.
She has received awards, fellowships, and residencies from VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Writing By Writers, Corporeal Writing, Bread Loaf Environmental Writer's Conference, The Dickinson House, and Blue Mountain Center.
She is a co-collaborator connecting Black artists and writers with social and healing justice organizations for mutual inspiration and support.