Lisa Beech Hartz
Lisa Beech Hartz directs Seven Cities Writers Project, bringing creative writing to underserved communities. She guides a workshop in a city jail and a memoir workshop of the Jim Crow Era. Her poems appear in Crazyhorse, Poet Lore, Redivider and elsewhere. "Portrait of Sherwood Anderson" is drawn from a collection exploring the life and work of photographer Doris Ulmann.
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Portrait of Sherwood Anderson at Ripshin Farm, Doris Ulmann, 1928
This? he says trying on a pose. The homeowner. Gentleman farmer. How about this? But he keeps looking at me. His petra eyes. Mmm, I say. And wait. Beyond me his blue hills. Is this the house the book paid …