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

Lesley Wheeler  | 
Issue 61.2 Spring 2012

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

Lesley Wheeler  | 
Issue 61.2 Spring 2012

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)

Lesley Wheeler  | 
Issue 61.1 Fall 2012

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 …