Lesley Wheeler
Lesley Wheeler is the author of Heterotopia, Heathen and Voicing American Poetry. She is the Henry S. Fox, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University and a recent Fulbright winner..
Reading List
Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco
Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco (Pittsburgh, 2012) Scene: pile of recent poetry volumes, all surely deserving fond attention. Bleary reviewer browses one for a while, sighs, puts it down, and repeats this behavior with several more. After …
Interview with Bill Manhire
AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL MANHIRE Bill Manhire, New Zealand’s first Poet Laureate, is one of that nation’s most distinguished and influential writers. His many books include recent poetry volumes Victims of Lightning and Lifted; prose collections Doubtful Sounds …
Or Consequence by Cynthia Hogue (Red Hen, 2010)
Fifteen people, mostly women, were gathered in a hotel conference room in Victoria, British Columbia — one of those grand old buildings where the wireless doesn’t work and photographs of Queen Elizabeth adorn the lobby. The space was cramped and …