Lisa Starr

Lisa Starr is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Rhode Island and a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island Fellowship in Poetry. She founded the Block Island Poetry Project and served as its director for thirteen years. Starr has published three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Mad With Yellow (2008), and she co-edited Where Beach Meets Ocean, an anthology celebrating ten years of the BIPP, in 2013. Retired, temporarily, after eighteen years running a ten-room guest house on Block Island, Starr is currently working on a memoir, “Writer, Inn-terrupted,” and a collection of poems for and about children, titled “Orrin and Millie and Brother and Me.”