Poetry Reading by David Lehman
August 22, 2016
Thursday, September 8 at 11 a.m., Knapp Hall, University Club
Offered by the Visiting Writers Program
David Lehman
David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia University and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett Fellow. He received a PhD in English from Columbia University. His poetry collections include: New and Selected Poems; Yeshiva Boys; When a Woman Loves a Man; Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man, coauthored with James Cummin; The Evening Sun: A Journal in Poetry; The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry; Valentine Place ; Operation Memory and An Alternative to Speech. Lehman is currently the series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he initiated in 1988, and is general editor of the University of Michigan Press’s Poets on Poetry Series. His other editorial works include The Best American Erotic Poems and The Oxford Book of American Poetry.
Lehman has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. He serves as faculty in the graduate writing programs at the New School and New York University. He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York.
