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In Lambert's latest poetry collection, lies about the weather, weather widely refers to the things that influence and work on us. Many of these poems are located in a real / surreal / mythic Florida, but others inhabit the interior landscape we call home--the one we sometimes feel the least at ease in.

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In Lies About the Weather, Steve Lambert captures the sacredness of daily moments in lucid, precise verse. These poems are little landscapes exploring the weather patterns, terrain, and even architecture of the American south, where the speaker grew up wrestling with fire-and-brimstone devils and learning to love even the unrelenting heat. Lambert's powerful visual and audial imagery situates the reader inside this geography. These pieces also pay tribute to his ""teasing peasant"" ancestors who worked the land. Lies About the Weather is shot through with grief over small and big losses, from a dying bird to a deceased father to a changing climate. As a fellow Gen Xer, I relate to the speaker's liminal position, finding ourselves in midlife on a dying planet, tossed between bereaving our parents and watching our children turn into adults. I was also deeply moved by the speaker's fears of aging and nostalgia for a sense of immortality and recklessness felt only in youth. --LeeAnn Olivier, author of Chimera

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Steve Lambert was born in Louisiana and grew up in Florida. His writing has appeared in Adirondack Review, Chiron Review, The Cortland Review, Emrys Journal, Louisiana Literature, The Pinch, Saw Palm, South Florida Poetry Journal, Tampa Review, Trampoline Poetry, and many other places. In 2018 his poem ""Serenade for Larkin"" won Emrys Journal's Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize and he is the recipient of four Pushcart Prize nominations. Interviews with Lambert have appeared in print, on podcasts, and radio. He is the author of the poetry collections Heat Seekers (2017) and The Shamble (2021), and the book-length poem Dutch Ears (2025). This collection was long listed for the 2025 Terry J Cox Poetry Award (Regal House).

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