About
Lisa Rosenberg is poet, essayist, and former space program engineer trained as a physicist. Her work has been recognized by a Djerassi Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, regional poet laureate term, and book honors for her collections Weeds and Stars (Spring, 2026) and A Different Physics (2018). She integrates expertise from writing, design, science, somatics, and multiple arts to help writers and others develop process awareness, technical agency, and self-directed growth. Her writing appears in journals and anthologies such as Plume, POETRY, The Common, The Threepenny Review, Terrain, Slackjaw, and California Fire & Water: a Climate Crisis Anthology.
Featured Work
Weeds and Stars
Coming from The Word Works, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, in Spring, 2026:
Feather to fire, plants to politics, Old Glory to accretion disks—Lisa Rosenberg’s second collection, WEEDS AND STARS, brings into deeper bloom what Robert Pinsky hailed in her debut: poetry that "unifies…realms, with an informed vision that is social as well as scientific, personal as well as historical.” These rhythmically grounded explorations invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies that surround us, whether fantastic or ordinary, subatomic or cosmic in scale. Rosenberg engages with the tropes and expectations of Western lyric poetry, and the speaker that emerges is by turns wry, off-kilter, and playful, inviting us to reconsider belonging, boundaries, and interconnectedness across eras and entities alike.
Other Works
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A Different Physics
2018
