Posted on September 21, 2015
by Lesley Wheeler
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My new book of poems, Radioland, is now available for purchase! My own box is supposed to arrive today, although I live in such a small town we don’t receive daily UPS delivery, so it could be tomorrow. I’m jittery with suspense. In the meantime, I thought… Continue Reading “Hey you out there in radioland!”
Posted on September 21, 2015
by Lesley Wheeler
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“First came Vachel Lindsay and gave a ‘reading’ (if you could call it that) of his poem in the Washington and Lee Library. One of them sounded to me like a hog calling. Then came Carl Sandburg whom I liked much better.” This is… Continue Reading “Literary Lexington in the 1920s”
Posted on September 10, 2015
by Lesley Wheeler
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I’ve had my head under a giant seeing-my-daughter-off-to-college-shaped rock, so when I read Jeannine Hall Gailey’s blog yesterday, its references to scandal in the poetry world inspired me to lift my busy skull and ask, “Wha-at?” I’m not going to name the white guy who… Continue Reading “On submitting a poem 50 times”
Category: UncategorizedTags: Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, Jeannine Hall Gailey, po-biz, poetry submissions, record-keeping, rejections, revision, Rumpus, Sherman Alexie, The Journal
Posted on September 4, 2015
by Lesley Wheeler
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Now my daughter is off in radioland–away at college but constantly present in my imagination, and intermittently present through texts and posts. A message with cheerful emoji has such an instant calming effect on my blood pressure–it’s amazing that when I went to Rutgers,… Continue Reading “Crazed poet-parent launches daughter and book”
