Poet,
to beautify
an empty page you must
hear what is not being said, then
say it.
— from "Advice to a Poet", Lisa Toth Salinas
How to Plant a Dream, published by Mustard Seed Farm & Market 
On Visiting the Old House, Winners’ Circle Award published in Encore: Prize Poems 
Walls in Life are Made to Climb, collaborative work of art and poetry with artists Leslie Gaworecki and Marlo Saucedo for Color:Story 2019 
Magdalena’s Portrait, published in Smallest Leaf 
To the New Girl at the Women’s Shelter, published in Presence Journal 
Tax Day Flood, 2016, published in Odes & Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast 
How to Plan a Trip, published in Smallest Leaf 
A Lesson in Trust at the Feet of Millet, published in St. Austin Review 
How to Treat a Granite Woman, Therese Lindsey Award given by the Poetry Society of Texas 
At the Historical Society He Discovers How Our Train Engineer Great-Grandfather Died, Utah State Poetry Society Award published in Encore: Prize Poems 
The Geographer, published in St. Austin Review 
Aftermath, published in Presence Journal 
Houstonian Come Home, Georgia Poetry Society Award in Encore: Prize Poems 
On Meeting a Neighbor After the Hurricane, published in Odes & Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast 
Houstonians Prepare for a Week-long Ice Storm, published in Texas Poetry Calendar 
Going for Broke, published in Prompts and Pathways
For details about Lisa’s Eakin award-winning collection, visit Smallest Leaf: A Collection of Poetry.
Other publications featuring Lisa’s recent or forthcoming poems:
- Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (forthcoming)
- Houstonian Come Home, Encore 2023: Prize Poems of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
- Self-Portrait as Reflected in Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Column, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, A Book of the Year 2022
- On Getting the House after the Failed Marriage, Encore 2022: Prize Poems of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
- Houstonians prepare for a week-long ice storm, Texas Poetry Calendar 2022
- On Visiting the Old House, Encore 2021: Prize Poems of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
- Aftermath, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry 2021
- Tax Day Flood: 2016, Odes & Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast
- I Thought of a Troubled Corona of New Color, Interconnectedness: Poetry at Round Top Anthology 2020
- Coronavirus Cento, Tejascovido
- Histories, Through Layered Limestone: A Texas Hill Country Anthology of Place
- How to Plant a Dream, Mustard Seed Farm & Market
- Connoisseur, Red Rock Writers Chaparral Poetry Forum
- To the New Girl at the Women’s Shelter, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry 2019
- At Paris’ Gare Lyon Station, en Route to Basel, An American Vet Visits Vietnam, Living Will, and Rally Cry at the Poetry Meeting, A Book of the Year 2019
- Going for Broke, Prompts and Pathways: A Poetry Anthology 2019
- Glass Paperweight, Bees on Flowers, Two Views of Dublin, Helen Keller, and Going for Broke, Panorama vol. 36, 2018-2019
- Margaret Clitherow, Expectant, Encore 2018: Prize Poems of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
- Gratitude, Midsummer, Poetry Society of Texas Summer Conference Anthology 2018
- Fidelity, A Book of the Year 2018
- On Meeting a Neighbor After the Hurricane, Houston Chronicle‘s “After Harvey: Poems from the Flood”
- Pantoum of the Traveler in Southeast Asia and Tourist, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, A Book of the Year 2017
- Crucible, Magdalena’s Portrait, Poet at Dusk, Inheritance, Stargazing at the Family History Library, and On the Western Front Lines, Belgium, Panorama vols. 33-34, 2014-2015
- After the Wildfires and My Aunt and I Discuss Life Over Farberware, Inkwell Echoes: 2015-2016
- At the Historical Society He Discovers How Our Train Engineer Great-Grandfather Died and Butterfly Goodbye, Encore 2016: Prize Poems of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
- Morning at the Indoor Pool, A Book of the Year 2016
- The Geographer, St. Austin Review, January/February 2016
- A Lesson in Trust at the Feet of Millet, St. Austin Review, May/June 2015
- Passage, St. Austin Review, July/August 2014
- How to Read a Poem, Song of the Artist in Autumn, Rose in Winter, Heritage, and Summer Tourists at the National Archives, Washington D.C., Poets Northwest
- Crossing, 100 Years in America
“Inhertitance” is a collaborative poetry and visual art piece created for Color:Story 2021. Artist Laura Tyagi composed the work of art made of paper mâché rocks and origami hearts in response to my poem of the same name.
“Dreaming in black and white I see myself as poet: my folded words carefully tucked into corners of hearts I do not know; the familiar light of my soul shining in their eyes.” - Lisa Toth Salinas, “Inheritance”
