Lisa Olstein is the author of several poetry collections, including Distinguished Office of Echoes (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award. In addition, she has published a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin.

My Only Life

by Lisa Olstein

I have arrived in a place I think I will stay for a while.
My shadow is cast before me by the paleness of a certain star

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