Lisa Zerkle is a poet and editor in Charlotte. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. As the creator and curator of 4X4CLT, a public art and poetry broadside and reading series for Charlotte Lit, she published work by Ada Limón, Terrance Hayes, Matthew Olzmann, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and others. She serves as an editor for Painted Bride Quarterly, a podcaster on PBQ’s Slush Pile, and as an editor for Iron Oak Editions.
Selected work
- Poetry
10
- Other
1

Long Distance
Raleigh Review, 2025

Self-Portrait as Ursa Major
Rogue Agent, 2025

Why I'll Never Make it as a Witch
Croak, 2025

“The Rhapsody of Things as They Are”: Unabridged Truth in Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry
West Trade Review, 2025

Denise
Quartet Journal, 2023

Two poems
Reverie , 2024

I'm Stopped by the Black Pearl of Her
Heavy Feather Review, 2023

Incantation (Avian/Reptilian)
Blue Bottle Journal, 2023

Again the Spider
LEON Literary Review, 2020

Relics of the Great Acceleration
storySouth, 2017

My Son in the Sea
The Collagist, 2015