Elizabeth Ahl
Education
BFA, Emerson College; MFA, University of Pittsburgh; PhD, University of Nebraska
After an itinerant childhood and youth, Liz Ahl found her way to Plymouth as a new faculty member in the fall of 2001, and she’s been here ever since. She has traveled to all 50 states, as well as to Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, and Laos, but never “across the pond” to the UK or Europe. Although her primary field is poetry, she is also interested in how poetry intersects with other areas, ranging from mathematics to history and science, as well as with the other fine and performing arts. She has performed her poetry with musicians, had her poems set for choral performance, and has recently had her first experience co-curating a gallery show pairing poets and printmakers. You might also ask her about the U.S. space program of the 1960s, letterpress printing and book arts, or Texas Hold ’em, three passions of hers about which she’s also written poems.
Media
2023 Interview with Laura Knoy on Read Local NH Podcast
2022 interview and conversation on The Chapbook Podcast
2018 Interview with NHPR “The Bookshelf”
Poetry Collections
A Stanza is a Place to Stand (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023)
A Case for Solace (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022; Winner of the 2023 New Hampshire Literary Award for Poetry)
Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books Granite State Poetry Series, 2017)
Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016)
Talking About The Weather (Limited Edition, Seven Kitchens Press, 2012)
Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010)
A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (Winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest)
Selected Recent Publications in Poetry (Literary Journals)
“Wild” in Passengers Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2, June 2024
“Etymology, Again;” “Places I’ve Abandoned My Body;” and “Tumbleweed,” in Stanza Cannon, Issue #7, Fall 2023
“Desire” and “My Mother Loves,” in the ASP Bulletin Issue 6, June 2023
“Remnants” in New Verse News, April 14, 2023
“Dinner,” “Lake,” and “Aligned,” in Revolute, Vol .004, March 2023
“What Can be Done,” in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, February 2023
“The Cold,” in New Verse News, February 4, 2023
