brief
notes
on
pre
newtonian
physics
a manuscript of new poetry / r.j. lambert
finalist for the CR Press 2023 Chapbook Award
poems online
in print
/
My Mother at 3 A.M.
Jabberwock Review
forthcoming in 2024
The Point of Attachment
GRIFFEL
forthcoming in 2024
Posit
September 2023
Fear Is a Form of Time Travel
Glory Be He
Mouth-feel
Amnesty Week
The Good Life Review
2023
Fear Is a Form of Time Travel
Glory Be He
Mouth-feel
The Broadkill Review
2023
Narrative of Rural Tenses
Black Fork Review
December 2022
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
Bending Genres
June 2022
Morning People
Verseweavers
May 2022
Superstition Review
May 2022
Lethologica
Lethonomia
After Jane Hammond, Untitled, 1991
After Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled, 1991
Denver Quarterly
April 2022
Nostradamus in the Original French
The Ilanot Review
April 2022
Habits of Creature
New Letters
April 2022
Somewhere(s) to Start
Red Ogre Review
April 2022
Future Tense
Having, One Night Before, Googled Some Quotes of Stalin
Temenos
April 2022
After Stein
peculiar: a queer literary journal
Spring 2022
Feedback Loop
Mr. Liquor Delivers
An Eccentricity of Orbits
Crab Creek Review
Spring 2022
The Worcester Review
Winter 2021-2022
Indelible in the Hippocampus
After Christopher Wool, Untitled, 1991
Yalobusha Review
January 2022
Oddball Magazine
January 2022
Color Theory
Rods & Cones
CutBank: All Accounts & Mixture
November 2021
Distrust the Autobiographer
Moon Longing
Narrative of Maritime Tenses
Intention to be Faithful
Kelp Journal
July 2021
Sibling Rivalry
MUSC Humanitas
May 2021
Continuous Burlesk
Hayden loved to climb to the summit on one of the barren hills flanking the river, & stand there while the wind blew
Tupelo Quarterly
November 2018
Pacific Solitaire
Probable Robin
Yearlong Abroad
Harpur Palate
Winter/Spring 2010
Prolegomena
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
2009
The World of No Wheels
Río Grande Review
2009
Contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch
Prelude to Retrocast
Copper Nickel
2007
Substantia Nigra
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
2006
what
two
of
my
favorite
poets
just
said
In Mind Lit in Neon, RJ Lambert imagines a world where mother, father, and brother mingle with Camus and Borges and Stein, Nancy Reagan and Whitney Houston. Let the revelations come as they may, this world is alive to itself and moving to the music Lambert paints: all our days and nights: the siren of an ambulance, the first robin, a morning’s breeze—so many sounds vivid against the skin.
Mary Ann Samyn
author of eight poetry books
including
Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance
The wind blows through these poems, as if through a sax or a bassoon—the limitless delights of nature activating the narrowest corridors of human invention to produce strange and melancholic melodies. With grace, grit, wit, and winsomeness, Lambert forms out of the quiet atoms of verse a fierce and lively hand. That hand, I’m pleased to report, plays unforgettable music.
Justin Jannise
former editor of Gulf Coast
& author of
How To Be Better By Being Worse
#1 HIV/AIDS New Release at Amazon
A Top 50 LGBT Poetry Book at Amazon
My debut poetry collection from 2022!
Featuring "Habits of Creature," chosen by Kaveh Akbar to win the 2021 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry from New Letters
& "Indelible in the Hippocampus,"
nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize by The Worcester Review.
cover art copyright 2021
and used with permission
from artist Loui Jover
@louijover Instagram