Shadows on Wood
Finishing Line Press, 2021
“It is time the stone took the trouble to bloom” Paul Celan once wrote, and in Lacy Snapp’s visionary poems just about everything does. This is a world of trees, brick, flowers, seed pods, but also ghosts from her past and her family history, and the two define and redefine each other in a way that instill in her—and us—a “cosmic affirmation.” Snapp must be considered one of our important new ecological poets who have redefined the scope of ecology as a more encompassing and complex vision of the world, one seen as an “Intricate being made of fire and flight.” In lush, flowing lines, she carries us on that flight. I can’t think of a more timely poetry for our depleted environment, or for our souls.
–Richard Jackson, author of Where The Wind Comes From and Broken Horizons
Poetry
“Dandelion Wine,” About Place Journal, September 2025
“Black Eyed Pea” and audio recording, Salvation South, August 2025
“Becoming a Ghost” and “Daily Routine,” Objects in This Mirror, Press 53, March 2025
“Before Canning” “Permanence” and “Stitched Curtain Songs” Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak Anthology, Volume Nine, 2024
“making tea but thinking of turtles,” Cutthroat, March 2024
“A Body of Still Marble” The Ekphrastic Review, October 2023
“Lullaby to the Decomposing Succulent” and “I Surrender My Garden to Her” Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak Anthology, Volume Eight, December 2022
“Divined Good” and “I Surrender My Garden to Her” Still: The Journal, 2022
“Mid-March in Tennessee,” Mildred Haun Review, 2021
“Daily Routine: An Ars Poetica” and “Lore” Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak Anthology, Volume Seven, 2021
“Heartpine” “Red Oak” and “Us Middle School Nymphs” Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak Anthology, Volume Six, 2020
“Regenerating” Snapdragon: A Journal of Arts and Healing, 2020
“Heartpine” and “Red Oak” The Mockingbird, 2019
“Fear of Getting Wet” The Mockingbird, 2018
IV.
The angel remains alone, head turned away
from her missing half, her un-
sculpted celestial twin, as her chin
tilts down, away from the sun.
Her right hand forever reaches
out to bronze star
she will never touch, and from that
height, she cannot hide
that she will never know the huddled
warmth and rhythmic humming
of a hoard of bees. Never know […]
The Ekphrastic Review
Creative Nonfiction
“Sawdust Meditations” Still: The Journal, Summer 2024
“Perfection in the Nest of a Wren” About Place Journal, The More-Than-Human-World Issue, October 2023
“Now, Dad and I plane away, removing layer after layer of the barnwood’s outer skin. Most of it makes its way into the bin, but some escapes into the air, particles hovering like an ethereal mist.”
from “Sawdust Meditations” in Still: The Journal
Reviews/Interviews/Features
“Poetry contest, pub crawl turn section of downtown into ‘Writers’ Block,’” Appalachian Places; 2025
“Who is the real Helen?”: A Conversation with Maria Zoccola on Helen of Troy, 1993; Hunger Mountain Review; 2025
“Grief and Gratitude,” an interview with Nickole Brown for Appalachian Places; 2025
Book Review for In Any of These Towns, Appalachian Journal; 2024
Interviewed for “Building a Better Future for the Next Generation of Writers,” Humanities in Action Podcast; 2024
Coverage of the Tennessee Mountain Writers Workshop, Appalachian Places; 2024
Interviewed for “Life & Work with Lacy Snapp of Johnson City” for Knoxville Voyager; 2024
Interviewed for WV Radio’s Inside Appalachia series on the East TN Poetry Scene; 2023
Interview with Kari Gunter-Seymour for Appalachian Places, May 2023
Book Review, Leap into the Water: On Nance Van Winckel’s Sister Zero, Tupelo Quarterly; January 2023
Book Review for Lock Her Up, Still: The Journal; 2022
Visual Art
“Leafed Lines” and “The Day After Friday" Photography, Untelling, Issue 4, forthcoming December 2025
“Poplar Four Ways” (Reclaimed Wood Art), “Ag in Art” Agriculture Juried Exhibition at Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN, May 2024
“Blue Ridge Reflection in You” and “Patches of Belonging” Reclaimed Wood Art, “Embodying Culture: Women in Appalachia” Juried Exhibit at ETSU’s Reece Museum, January 2024
“Harbinger of Spring” Red Mud Review, chosen as cover art, April 2023
“Reclaimed Pine Barnwood Art Deco” Johnson City Public Art Banner Exhibition, Founders Park, Johnson City, TN, January 2023
“Creep” Black Moon Magazine, erasure collage art chosen as centerfold piece, April 2022
listen to “red oak” and “liminal”
recited for National Poetry Month