Lesley Wheeler
Lesley Wheeler is Shenandoah's poetry editor. Her new books are The State She’s In, her fifth poetry collection, and Unbecoming, her first novel. Her essay collection Poetry’s Possible Worlds is forthcoming in 2021. Her poems and essays appear in Kenyon Review, Ecotone, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Reading List
A Grimoire: Poems in Pursuit of Transformation
…call it break call it bloom —Nadia Alexis, “Letter to My Friend Robert” I depend on poetry to connect me to a spirit of resistance. When my work seems to count for little, poems remind me that saying can be a kind of doing. They may not alter corrosive laws or troubled institutions, but they […]
The Humanities and the Work of Healing: A Conversation with Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo’s sixth poetry collection, Alternative Medicine, was published by Duke University Press in late fall of 2013. Like The Enemy and his earlier books, it deploys a dazzling pharmacopeia of received forms to treat a wide range of identities …
Signals from Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction
By Lesley Wheeler, Max Chapnick and Drew Martin The Project (Lesley): Literary conversation has always crossed political, cultural, and geographical borders, although it seems to circulate especially rapidly lately: this morning, for instance, I read a New York Times article …