PAULA J. LAMBERT, LITERARY & VISUAL ART
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POETRY: 
2023
- "Contrition: Birds-of-Paradise," forthcoming in SWWIM Everyday. 
- "This Place, Too, a Loss," forthcoming in Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal.
- "Sleep," forthcoming in Braided Way Magazine. 
- Poetry translation forthcoming in Taos Poetry Journal.
2022
- "What's Left," Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Fall 2022.
- "Vigilance," ONE GOOD MEMORY series, Silver Birch Press, October 21, 2022.
​- "Splendor," One Art: A Journal of Poetry, August 27, 2022..
- Everglades (Burmese Python), Dissident Voice : A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice, July 24, 2022
- "Rain of Animals," SWWIM Every Day, May 27, 2022.
- “Just as the Birds, Distracted,” New Verse News, May 19, 2022. 
- Book trailer for 2022 Ohioana Book Festival. 
- "Dreaming the Shadow Self" included on Season 4, Episode 9 of The Blue Door to the Cosmos podcast, "Poetry on the Theme of Shadows (the Shadow Self). April 11, 2022. 
- "Winter," Braided Way Magazine. February 4, 2022.
2021
- "Ars Poetica: Wild Geese," "On Watching a Time-Lapse Video of the Ice Sheet Covering Lake Michigan Split in Two and Drift Apart," and "Weight," Editor's Choice Award, Sheila-Na-Gig Online., Vol. 6.2, Winter 2021. 
- "Atonement," HOW TO HEAL THE EARTH Series, Silver Birch Press. November 10, 2021.  
- "Undone," (Nominated for Best of the Net!), Braided Way Magazine, September 17, 2021.
- "Why Seagull Tries to Eat the Whale When Whale Comes Up to Breathe," Crab Creek Review, Fall 2021. Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Crab Creek Poetry Award.
- "Uncanny," Slippery Elm Literary Journal 2021. Finalist for the 2021 Slippery Elm Poetry Award.
- "Global Vaccine Poem: The Space Between Us," The Poetry of the Vaccine, WKSU 89.7, Public Radio News for Northeast Ohio, May 28, 2021. 
-  "Present Continuous, Meaning Past, Implying Future," I AM STILL WAITING Series, Silver Birch Press, May 12, 2021. 
- “How to See the World: Hunger,” HOW TO Series, Silver Birch Press, March 17, 2021. 
2020
"most days" and "first freeze," Poetry Pea Journal of Haiku and Senryu, 2020 Winter Edition.
- "most days," shared on Series 3, Episode 24 of the Haiku Pea Podcast. December 21, 2020.
- "What Our Chivalrous Bones Desire," The Ekphrastic Review's Ekphrastic Prompt Challenge. January 15, 2020.
"Off Course" and "Justice," Eclipsing the Dark: The Sun & Moon Poetry Festival Anthology, Ohio Poetry Association. Summer, 2020.
- "Beast," Eunoia Review, June 18, 2020. 
- "Flying," Eunoia Review, June 18, 2020. 
- "The Breath You're Holding (Easter Prayer)" was included in a video produced by Healing Broken Circles for the Marion Correctional Institution.
- "Opossum: Diversion, Strategy," shared on Episode #125, Open Mic of the Air #4 by Poetry Spoken Here, May 1, 2020. 
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- "Beloved: Ghazal for Our Time," shared in Coshocton Public Library System's Facebook page series "Pandemic Spring: Poems to Get Us Through," April 10, 2020.
2019
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"What They Imply By Depicting a Vulture," winner of the 2019 Heartwood Broadside Series, was made into a letterpress broadside designed by Base Camp Printing and included as "artifact companion" to Issue 8 (Fall 2019) of Heartwood Literary Magazine. 
- "Berkshire Mountains, September 2016," winner of NFSPS Board Award, and "Siege," second place in the Nevada Poetry Society Award, both published in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' Encore: Prize Poems 2019. July 2019,
- "European Goldfinch: An Ekphrastic," "Mammals: Simurgh, Whale," "Kleptoparasitism: Brahminy Kite," and "Celestial Navigation: Indigo Bunting." included in Blackberry Peach Poetry Prize Anthology, National Federation of State Poetry Societies. June 2018.
- "Blood Feather." Poets to Come: Whitman's 200th Birthday Anthology. May 2019.
- "My Head Is an Egg." Haikuniverse, April 17, 2019. 
- "Ubiquity: Sparrow." Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Spring, 2019.
2018
- "Breathing In This World," Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge, July 30, 2018. 
2017
- "Lessons in the Drinking of Nectar: Hummingbird." Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Anthology. December 2017.
- "What the Letter S Said to the Punctuation Mark," and "What the Working Man Tells His Son (What He, Himself, Believes)," A Rustling and Waking Within: Poems Inspired by the Arts in Ohio. Ohio Poetry Association. 
2016
- "Flying Kites with Amish Children." Radar Poetry, Issue 9. Includes audio link, available here.
2015 
- “Embouchure,” Again I Wait for This to Pull Apart, a music-themed anthology by FreezeRay Press.
- “Life Events, 1964,” Blue Max Review, August 2015. (Short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Prize.)
- “Origami Dove: Postcard Contemplations from a Flight to Arizona,” Your Impossible Voice, Summer 2015. Audio link available here.
- "Indoctrination, 1972," Me, as a Child Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, May 2015. 
2014
- “Waiting for Want to Return,” I Am Waiting Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, December 7, 2014.
– “On Handling Grief: Karl Wallenda,” published in Slippery Elm Literary Journal, December 2014.
- “Dreaming the Shadow Self,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 20, 2014.
- “Hades Rising from a Cleft in the Earth,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 17, 2014.
- “What Was the Wolf but a Woman, or When Eating Sustains More than a Life,” Mythic Poetry Series, published by Silver Birch Press, November 8, 2014.
- “The Roach’s Response,” published in the Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology, Silver Birch Press. October 2014.
- “The Roach’s Response,” published in Bukowski on Wry, March 11, 2014.
- “What It Takes to Be Born,” published in Common Threads: The Annual Journal of Work by Members of the Ohio Poetry Association, 2014.  
2013
- “Gape: Fledglings,” broadside (included in the Portfolio of the Fall 2013 Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers), The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, November 2013.
- “Anatomy of Birds, Part 1: Furcula,” published in Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai, a Future Cycle Press “Good Works” anthology, October 9, 2013.
- “Huff Post Science News Headline, or When You Wish Something More Had Been Lost,” published in The Blue Max Review, August, 2013 (Short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Prize).
- “Anxiety 1″ published in The 2013 Ohio Poetry Association Anthology Everything Stops and Listens, April 22, 2013.
- “The Night Sky,”  published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 22, 2013.
- “There’s Only So Much a Poem Can Hold,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 15, 2013.
- “The Hypochondriac’s Question to the Woman with Synesthesia,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 8, 2013.
- “The Burden of Too Much Meaning,” published in Tweetspeak Poetry’s Poetry Classroom, April 1, 2013.

2011 
- “End Time” and “What Do You Call a Broken Boomerang?” published in Radius: From the Center to the Edge, May 14, 2011.
- “Embouchure,” published in the premiere issue of Muzzle Magazine.

2009
- Chapbook, The Guilt That Gathers, Pudding House Publications.
- Podcast, “Speaking of Poetry” on talktainment radio: http://www.talktainmentradio.com/play_window.php?audio&audioId=4663357.

2007
- “Baptism,” published in Fall 2007 issue of Heartlands Today.

2006
- “Bees,” Slab magazine, Issue 1. Awarded Second Place in the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Contest.
- “the tornado,” Honorable Mention in the Akron Art Museum “New Words” Poetry Contest.
- “Fireflies,” Winner, RTA Bus Card Project, sponsored by Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland. Published and displayed on over 700 busses on the Cleveland public transportation system.

2000
- “Confessional”; POMPA 2000.

1999 
- “Quilt Blocks” and “Watching You Bail Hay”; Volume IX of The Heartlands Today: Midwest Characters and Voices.

1995
- “The Model T,” “Echoes Underground,” and “Graceland”; Spring/Summer issue of Zone 3. “The Model T” awarded second place in Rainmaker Awards for the best poem submitted to Zone 3 in 1995.
- “Fireflies”; Summer issue of Spider.



PROSE:
2022
- "The Persistent Metaphor of Birds," Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, April 27, 2022. 
2021
- "Eating the Body, Consuming the Self." Fatal Flaw: (un)confined, March 2016. 
2020
- "Pox/Pax: Dispatch from the Post-Election Suburbs." Medium, December 25, 2020.
- "Jump." Medium, October 20, 2020.
- "Keeping Vigil, Being Brave: How the Barnard College Corpse Flower Kept Me Going through the Police Riots following George Floyd's Murder." Medium, June 4, 2020. 
- "I'm in Stasis." How We Are. May 22, 2020.
- "Standing at the Highest Point," Braided Way Magazine: Faces and Voices of Spiritual Practice. May 4, 2020. 
2016
- Short Story, "The Weight of Things, Large and Small," Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts. Spring 2016.
- Essay, "I Am the Canary," Slippery Elm Literary Journal, online edition. http://slipperyelm.findlay.edu/online-edition-i-am-the-canary/. March, 2016.
2013
- Essay, “Journey into Poetry: Paula J. Lambert,” for Tweetspeak Poetry, 20 February 2013. http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2013/02/20/journey-into-poetry-paula-j-lambert/
2008
- Essay, “Eighteen and Forty,” published in Fall 2007 issue of Writing on the Edge and nominated for Donald Murray Prize.
2006
- Feature Article, “Words on Wheels,” published in July 2006 issue of Cleveland Magazine, City Life Section.
- Book Review, “Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk”; Volume XLIX, No. 4 of Ohioana Quarterly.
- Book Review, “The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage by Joe Mackall”; Volume XLIX No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly.
2005
- Book Review,  “fall by Amy Newman”; Volume XLVIII, No. 1 of Ohioana Quarterly.
2004
- Short Story, “Christmas”; http://sfwp.org/archives/127.
- Book Review,  “Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand by Dennis Blankemeyer”; Volume XLVII, No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly.
- Book Review, “Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors, edited by Jennifer L. Howe”; Volume XLVII, No. 2 of Ohioana Quarterly.
2003
- “Salvation”; Volume 7 of Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts.
- Essay, “Remember the Dark”; Volume 2, No. 2 of The Awakenings Review.
- Book Review, “The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris”; Volume XLVI, No. 1 of Ohioana Quarterly.
2002
- Short Story, “When Phyllis Couldn’t Sleep”; Volume 25, Issue 58 of Hawaii Review, 2002.
- Book Review, “All Shook Up: Collected Poems about Elvis”; Volume XLV, No. 3 of Ohioana Quarterly.
2001
- Short Story, “The Healing”; Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (POMPA).
2000
- Short Story, “Of Being Closely Tied to Another, by Affection or by Faith”; POMPA.
1999
- Short Story, “The Twenty-Dollar Tip”; POMPA.
1998 
- Short Story, “Blind”; Volume 24, Number 28 of other voices.
- Short Story, “The Twenty-Dollar Tip”; February issue of Crab Creek Review.
1997
- Short Story, “Neal Hornsby”; Volume 31, Issue 3 of Wisconsin Review.
1995
- Short Story, “With All Respect to Harry”; Volume 24, Number 2 issue of Phoebe. Awarded “Best Short Story Submitted to Phoebe in 1995.”

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    • The Ecstasy of Wanting, Standard Edition
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    • The Grief That Gathers
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