Louise Robertson

Name: Louise Robertson

Profile: Poet and Novelist

Email: authorljrobertson@gmail.com

About me

Louise Robertson has earned degrees (BA Oberlin, MFA George Mason University), hundreds of poetry publications (including New Ohio Review, Dialogist, SWWIM), poetry awards (Mary Roberts Rinehart, Columbus Arts Festival Poetry Competition (twice) – among others), and nominations (three times for the Best of the Net and twice for a Pushcart). Brick Cave Media published her full-length book of poetry (The Naming Of) in December 2015 and a young adult novel (The Experiment Known as Rose Marie Hernandez Williamson) in 2020. She is active as a poet and organizer in her local Columbus, Ohio poetry scene.

Robertson is also a certified email developer (SFMC) at Nationwide. (LinkedIn for the professional deets.)

CV

Will be updated intermittently.

Awards/Nominations:
2022/3 - Cardinal Sings (anthology), nominated for the "Book of the Year" award by the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia
2021 - The Count Is 2 and Whatever, The Mantle, nominated for a 2021 Pushcart
2018 - Snake Handler, Flypaper Magazine, 2018, Best of the Net nomination
2017 - Diminuendo al Niente, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, 2018 Pushcart nomination
2015 - Caterpillars, Crab Fat Magazine, 3rd issue, Best of Net nomination 2015
2015 - Canvas - After the Pause - March 2015, Nominated for Best of the Net 2015
2009 - First Place at the Columbus Arts Festival
2007 - First Place at the Columbus Arts Festival
2006 - Third Place at the Columbus Arts Festival
2005 - 2nd Place William Redding Award
1992 - Mary Roberts Rinehart award (Poetry mss)
1991 - Penelope to her Loom (30 Years Later), third place Virginia Downs
1991 - Mary Cotton Fellowship
1991 - General Fellowship

Slam
2013 - Writers’ Block team at NATs
2013 - Writers’ Block Representative at WOWps
2012 - On the Rustbelt winning team (Columbus team)
(a couple haiku deathmatches, one at First Draft, one at Street light guild)

Organizer
2005-2022 - Marketing, web stuff, and door for Writers’ Block Poetry Night (Staff)
2016-2019 - MeatGrinder Co-Founder
2012-2013 - Sheddin’ Co-Founder
2011 - Host City Chair for WOWps 2011
2010 - Marketing Director on host committee for WOWps 2010

Features/Presentations (this is so, so incomplete)
2024 - Sonnets and Cinema at the Wexner Center, 2/15/2024
2023 - One of the 2023 Rhapsody and Refrain 3 poets, 9/27/2023
2022 to 2024 - Poet in Residence for New Music at the Short North Stage brought to you by the Johnstone Fund for New Music, seasons 10 and 11
2011 to Present - The MetaFactory
2023 - Part of Writers’ Block Arts Festival slot 6/10/2023
2023 - Featured poet at Write-On poets at the Crescent Lounge 5/21/2023, 3pm
2023 - Presenter at the 2023 CSCC Writers’ Conference 4/15/23
2023 - Pennington gallery Call and Response (OPA event, with many other poets)3/2023
2023 - Double feature with Karen Garrabrandt at Streetlight Guild 3/3/23
2023 - Presenter at the 2023 CSCC Writers’ Conference 4/15/23
2023 - Feature at the Poetry Forum 1/23/23
2023 - Presenter at the OPA Workshop 1/14/23
2022 - Part of Writers’ Block slot at the Arts Festival 6/2022
2020 - One of the 2020 Rhapsody and Refrain 2 poets (presented all online!)
2019 - One of the 2019 Rhapsody and Refrain 1 poets
2018 - OSU Hospital Poets
2018 - The Big Score (two performances, then interrupted by the pandemic)
2017 - Perkins Observatory (one of the featured poets)
2017 - Sight of Sound (one of many poets responding to artwork)
2017 - Java Monkey
2017 - Poetry Forum (3/2017)
2016 - Dare to Be Heard (one of many poets responding to artwork)
2013 - You Call That Art (one of many poets responding to artwork, Christopher Burk)

Books/Chapbooks:
Chapbook of the Month series issued through Patreon
Reflections and Reformations: Poems Written for the 10th Season of New Music at Short North Stage (2022-2023)
The Experiment Known as Rose Marie Hernandez Williamson (YA novel/Brick Cave, 2020)
The Naming Of (poetry/Brick Cave, 2015)
Teaching My Daughter My Language (poetry chapbook/Pudding House, 2006)

Other
Story Snacker (app) - writer 2020
Favorite Things for Columbus Alive (now at Columbus Monthly)

Poem Publications
A Bed to Lie In, Medusa's Kitchen, published 10/2/21
A Good Comma, Indiefeed, Siren (July 2014)
About the Deer in the Neighborhood, Thirteen Myna Birds Accepted 6/2021
Adopted People, Parting Gifts, Summer 2007
Advice for Women, #thesideshow / Five:2:One, Online publication 8-9-2016
After, Delmava Review
After the Collapse of a Building, Lullwater Review, Emory U (Vol IV, No 2, Spring/Summer 1993)
America, Willows Wept, Winter 2023 (see page 17)
Ant, Slippery Elm, 2020
Anticipating My Father's Death, Parting Gifts, Summer 2007
Apocalypse, #thesideshow / Five:2:One Online publication 8-9-2016
Archeologist, Zetetic 3/14/2016
Art Class, Pittsburgh Poetry Houses Magazine and on a card, submitted July 2016, accepted June 2018
Asparagus, Pudding Magazine
Atheist, Baseline
Aubade, #thesideshow / Five:2:One Online publication 8-9-2016
Aubade (II), Right Hand Pointing For March 2020
Back in College, Thirteen Myna Birds Accepted Aug. 12, 2016
Backhoe, #thesideshow / Five:2:One Online publication 8-9-2016
Benediction for a Cup of Coffee, Evening Street Accepted March 31, 2022
Bequest for My Son, Literary Mama published Jan. 2017
Bleeding Out, baldhip magazine October 2014 issue
Blue, BlazeVOX, Fall 2015
Brain Pan Anniversaries, Clear Poetry, 1/14/2016
Breaking Up, Thirteen Myna Birds Accepted Aug. 12, 2016
Canvas, After the Pause, March 2015, Nominated for Best of the Net 2015
Car Accident, 3rd Wednesday Published October 2016
Caterpillars, Crab Fat Magazine 3rd issue, won a Best of Net nomination 2015
Cathedral, Clear Poetry, 1/14/2016, also selected for their anthology
Celery, Clear Poetry 1/14/2016
Climate Change Elegy, I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian Voices anthology, nominated for the "Book of the Year" award by the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia.
Complicity, After the Pause; After the Pause 2017 Anthology
Dad. Dad., Gyroscope, Spring or Summer 2016
Dance of My Forefathers, Parting Gifts Summer 2007
Darren, Gyroscope, Spring or Summer 2016
David, Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 20, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1990)
Dear Second Love, Front Porch Review April issue
Death Row Cook, Res Ipsa (Capital University Law School student newspaper)
Diminuendo al Niente, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, November 2017, Pushcart nomination
Divorce, Thirteen Myna Birds Accepted 6/2021
DNA, Common Ground Accepted September 2016
Drown It, Flypaper Magazine Accepted February 2018
Eve's Curse, Period An anthology
Found a new website, (haiku) Minglewood
Fried Chicken, Delmarva Review Also to be reprinted by Spy Community Media 2021
George Bush Paints, The New Verse News 28-Apr-14
Ghost Story, Pudding Magazine
Gossip, The Mantle August 2017
Gratitude Lists, Medusa's Kitchen published 10/2/21
Heaven, Medusa's Kitchen published 10/2/21
Helen to the Sea, So to Speak So to Speak, A Feminist Journal of Language and Art (Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1992)
Here’s the Poem I Am Sick of Hearing, Flypaper Magazine Accepted February 2018
Hide and Seek, in Darfur The New Verse News http://archive.feedblitz.com/8753/~3937995
Honor Killings, Baseline
Hotel Bed Sheet, Borderline persona poem journal
How To Write a Shakespearean Sonnet, Medusa's Kitchen published 10/2/21
I. Waves, Fetters Run Fetters' Run, OU - Lancaster Literary (Vol IV, Spring 2005)
Icarus, New Verse News (August 2014)
It’s Like Watching Someone Drinking Themselves To Death, Evening Street Accepted March 31, 2022
Jetson Whirr, New Ohio Review For December 2021 issue
Jezebel, Broad!
Last Thought, Crack the Spine (July 2014)
Locust Pods, Pudding Magazine, #56; Also athologized in Cap City Poets
loved., On the Sea Wall Accepted Dec. 2020
Mary Magdelene, Pudding Magazine
Money, Flypaper Magazine, Issue IV
Morning Sex, The Rusty Nail (TRN) June 2014
My Brother's Biological Father Asks for Forgiveness, Amaryllis Accepted July, 2016
My Manic Bitch, SWWIM, 1/6/2022
Nightclub, Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal, 2/2021
Not a Muse, BlazeVOX (Fall 2015) and Portside.org (3/26/2016)
Not Water, #thesideshow / Five:2:One Online publication 8-9-2016
November 1, Ship of Fools Ship of Fools, (Spring 1998, no. 41)
On the Delicate Task of Making a Password, Black Heart Magazine, 2016
On the Inadvisability of Good Decisions, New Ohio Review For December 2021 issue
Orders, 3rd Wednesday Published October 2016
Paper People in the Fall, The Plum Creek Review 1989 (oldest publication listed)
Penelope to her Loom (30 Years Later), Phoebe third place 1991 Virginia Downs award, published in Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 20, Numbers 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 1991)
Photoshop Man, Thirteen Myna Birds Accepted Aug. 12, 2016
Reason Number 6, Why I Broke Up with You, Indiefeed (audio)
Recycling, Evening Street, Accepted March 31, 2022
Reincarnation, Indiefeed
Running A-Fowl, Willows Wept, Winter 2023 (see page 16)
She Said (haiku), Parting Gifts
She Studies Clock, Indiefeed (audio), Pudding Magazine
Sin-Eater, Pudding Magazine
Slice of Heaven, Flypaper Magazine, Accepted February 2018
Snake Handler, Flypaper Magazine, Accepted February 2018, Best of the Net nomination
Sorry, Laurel Review, Accepted Oct 25, 2021 for print and web
Step 1: How to Name Your Fairytale Character, Third Wednesday
The Adopted Woman Gives Birth, Uppagus, Hessler Anthology Accepted July, 2016 (Uppagus) April 2017 (Hesslery Anthology)
The Affair, South Florida Poetry Journal, Accepted July 28, 2021
The Beauty of Being Adopted, Pudding Magazine
The Cat, Medusa's Kitchen, published 10/2/21
The Count is 2 and Whatever, for Bob Petric, The Mantle September 2021 - nominated for a 2021 Pushcart
The Entire Second Half, Baseline
The History of Vacuum Cleaners, Typishly, 2022
The Kidney, Dialogist, 2023
The Laurel Tree, Phoebe, The George Mason University Review (Volume 21, Numbers 1, Fall/Winter 1991-2)
The Pencil Cannot Believe It's Here in the Cubicle Drawer, Blue River, Accepted 1/31/21, online 3/21
The Pill, New Ohio Review, December 2021
These Are My Pants, Indiefeed (audio)
This Could Be a Love Poem, Apricity, due out May 2024
Time, Black Heart Magazine, accepted 3/25/2016
Turntable, Three Line Poetry, Haiku, Accepted Oct. 5, 2014
Twins at Gingerbread Ritual Literary Journal, 2/2021
Twitter, BlazeVOX, Fall 2015
Upon Leaving His Body, the Road Kill, Mangrove (2000, number 9)
What He Called Me, Third Wednesday
What Kind of Bug Do You Think That Is, I Start To Say, But, Apricity, due out May 2024
When I Hear a Mother Tell Her Daughters What Kind of Man to Love, South Florida Poetry Journal, Accepted July 28, 2021
Work Asks for a Bio, Postcards and Poems, Accepted May 9, 2016
You Did Not, Blue Unicorn, Accepted March 17, 2021