Wandering in all directions of this earth, forthcoming from Ghost Peach Press in 2023 and selected by Eduardo C. Corral, “who praised it for taking risks”:

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“The sentences in Loisa Fenichell’s aptly named Wandering in all directions of this earth enact a journey at once outward and inward, an odyssey through urban and bucolic spaces, across dreamlike bridges “that lead to more bridges,” backward and forward in time, and deeper into the fathomless self. A leg that begins in darkest extremity might pirouette into technicolor whimsy; grief and loneliness give way to a richness of language; and privation and pain find magical answers via metaphor’s deranging escape route from the harshness of the real: “I fainted / and convulsed, so found myself a small red boat, / like the booths of a diner, in which to sail away.” If poetic quicksilver lightens her path, the poet is likewise haunted by the fear that nothing (and no one, not even the self) stays or stabilizes long enough to set root in completely and call one’s own. The truth of this exuberant, crushing book is that only the fixity of the written page—analogous to that of its photographs—offers us evidence of who we (or another) might be or have been, and of what it feels or felt like to be here, alive on this earth, if only for a time.” - Timothy Donnelly, author of Chariot, The Problem of the Many, and others

Chapbook:

“Loisa Fenichell’s poems are fierce and precise, tiny daggers that will cut a hole in what you know to reveal inner layers to hunger, yearning, and the body’s transformations. The questing spirit who inhabits these pages goes on wandering and observing, while the poems, like finely-calibrated instruments, chart the delicate weather of emotions as these develop and change within the context of human relationships. Earthy yet numinous, made vivid with the details of lived experience yet made urgent by a romantic yearning for transcendence, this radiant collection will seize the reader from its first words and hold fast.” - Monica Ferrell, author of You Darling Thing, The Answer is Always Yes, and Beasts for the Chase

nothing to say press 2019; all these urban fields

forthcoming poems:

The Los Angeles Review: November Nights
Southeast Review: Country music
The Cortland Review: Data
DIAGRAM: Childhood games; Waking; Real
Epiphany Magazine: Thank you, it’s Friday!; A brief fling with comedy
The Iowa Review: At brunch; Younger

selected poems, 2024:

West Trade Review: At the bar, C calls me lonely, like actually (West Trade Review Poetry Prize honorable mention, selected by Robert Wood Lynn) (print)

selected poems, 2023:

Pigeon Pages: Bliss; Large bruise
RHINO: Matchstick (print)
New York Quarterly: For family and friends
Bat City Review: Stasis (winner of the Bat City Review Editors’ Prize) (print)
Brink Literary: This was not a new time; Long return; Thinking about you leaving (print)
West Trade Review: My will; Hotel (print) (mentioned in SWIMM Miami weekly shoutout)
Washington Square Review: Scene XXIX (print)
Brazenhead Review: Apology; Some lists are strange
Raleigh Review: Another name for weather; Touching (Dorianne Laux / Joe Millar Prize finalists) (print)

selected poems, 2022:

128 Lit: For a friend I met in New York (print)
Narrative Magazine: The store in which I am turned to a widow (Narrative Magazine 30 Below contest finalist)
Narrative Magazine: Four poems
Poetry Northwest: These feelings are already known
Schlag Magazine: A description of lonesomeness; Like children

selected poems, 2021:

Narrative Magazine: In the beginning; Mother
Two Peach: Many Wishes; Act I, Scene V
ITERANT: Act V, Scene IV; Act IV, Scene XI
HAD: Revision
SWWIM EVERYDAY 2021: Scene XXXVIII
Tinderbox Poetry: In which I remember I do not have a child but I have been one; Intimacy
Tupelo Quarterly: Scene XXXV, runner-up in Tupelo Poetry Prize contest, judged by Major Jackson
Sundog Lit: Creative exercises; Outpourings (“Creative exercises” nominated for Best of the Net)
Poetry Online: The nights clothed themselves fatigued (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

Reviews/Essays

The Los Angeles Review Of Books 2021; Review of Kayleb Raye Candrilli’s Water I won’t touch and Catherine Pond’s Fieldglass
laidoffnyc 2021; The Obsessions of Stacie Cassarino and Joanna Klink
Poetry Northwest 2021; The Dangers We Feed (review of Alexandria Hall’s Field Music)

Videos

I know now I did not fabricate the sky 2020 (collaboration / animation with Halle Ballard)