Lisa Zaran

Lisa Zaran 1 She was born in Englewood. Los Angeles, California. Her family moved over 40 times before she was six. Being the new kid wasa a bit frustrating, but now, as an adult she looks back on it as very enriching. She met so many people and learned tolerance an acceptance as the better ideal, versus close-mindedness to others and thier lifestyles. Age six she wrote her first poem the hallway which was about what a child can do down a hallway

Biography of Lisa Zaran 2 Lisa Zaran was born as Lisa Marie Hoie, september 26,1969). Lisa was a mild child with two older siblings and one younger. Zaran moved over forthy times from western united states and alaska. She attended several lutheran and christian academies. Her poetry appels to young and old alike but it is through the young that she has won her largest fan base. Over twenty schools, k-12 and college level students have studied her work and prepared essays, academic papers, debates and contests.

Lisa Zaran 3 She stemmed a strong intrest in poetry from listening to her brothers music and sought inspiration from artist like luciano pavaratti and the beatles and poets like thoreau and walt whitman as waell as insight from the bible. Zaran began to write"the sometimes girl" in the early years of her marriage.However, Zaran's poems are rich with potential. She employs a wide variety of literary devices to make her poems appeal to ehtos and pathos of her reader.Zaran edpresses an similar tone and theme of the significance of the relationship between a father and daughter in three of her poems including "Talking To My Father Whose Ashes Sit in a Closet and Listen" She evidenently has some unreasolved issue between herslef and her dad, or she tried to short through her emotions by expressing her balues through her poems. At the end of the poem htere is no final conclusion, but we are able to in this poem relate to a losing our father.

Lisa Zaran 4 Lisa inherited her love of writting from her father.The poem, Hair, by Lisa Zaran is based on curiosity. This poem means
that the things that are common to you, you can suggest on a answer
but the unknown becomes interesting and strikes your curiosity. It uses the
measurement of time, the presence of light, and the moon to describe what is already
known or usual. The girl with her waist length hair draws interest because she is
unusual and different.The line the moon, gaping at us uses personification, which is
giving a nonhuman a human characteristic. Metaphor, a comparison
of two unlike things without using like or as, is used in the line by the
slow split she makes in that curtain of hair.

Lisa Zaran Books 5 Lisa grew up a shy and quiet girl. She did well in school and was gifted with her father's love for the written word. She wrote her first poem entitled, Hallway, when she was six years old.

It is her hope for the world that the weather be kind, the people in good spirit and that the law hang by its own moral string. Let nature do and minds think and if a woman is thirsty let her have a pail of water or a bottle of wine. Books she wrote are the: ~the sometimes girl,2004, InnerCircle Publishing
~You Have A Lovely Heart, 2004, Little Poem Press
~Clipped From Our Days, 2005, Published by Argonauts' Boat.
~The Blondes Lay Content, 2006, Lulu Press
~Subtraction Flower, 2006, Lulu Press
~WinK, 2007, limited edition chapbook

Lisa Zaran 6 Lisa Zaran was born in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. She is an American poet, essayist and the author of six collections including The Blondes Lay Content and the sometimes girl, the latter of which was the focus of a year long translation course in Germany. Subsequently published to German in 2006 under the title: das manchmal mädchen. Selections from her other books have been translated to Bangla, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, German, Dutch, Persian and Serbian. Her poems have appeared in hundreds of literary journals, magazines, broadsides, anthologies and e-zines including: Juked, Ramshackle Review, Apparatus Magazine, Hudson Review, Black Dirt, Kritya, The Dande Review, Soul to Soul, Nomad's Choir Poetry Journal, Not a Muse Anthology, Best of the Web 2010, Literature: an intro to Reading and Writing by Pearson as well as being performed in Glasgow's Radio Theater Group and displayed in SONS, a museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium. Lisa is founder and editor of Contemporary American Voices, an online collection of poetry by American poets. She is also the author of Dear Bob Dylan, a collection of letters to her muse. She lives and writes in Arizona.