Poetry. "Gary Lenhart displays a gentle and intimate sense of humor, occupied as much in observing others as in inspecting himself. Lenhart can say a great deal in a few words, and he knows how to weave the Big Ideas into his work without pretending to resolve them"—Washington Review.

Author City: HANOVER, NH USA

Gary Lenhart is the author of five collections of poetry, including COMPOSITIONS (2010), FATHER AND SON NIGHT (1999), and LIGHT HEART (1991), from Hanging Loose Press. He also wrote The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class (Univeristy of Michigan Press, 2006). He has contributed poems, essays, and reviews to many magazines and anthologies, and was an editor of the magazines Mag City and Transfer. With Steve Levine, Gregory Masters, and Bob Rosenthal he edited Clinch: Selected Poems of Michael Scholnick (Coffee House Press, 1998) and with Christopher Edgar The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literarture (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2001). He also edited The Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams (1998). He worked at Teachers & Writers Collaborative for 10 years and has taught at Mercy College, LIU-Brooklyn, Columbia University, Community College of Vermont, College for Lifelong Learning, and since 1996 at Dartmouth. In 2010 his selected prose, ANOTHER LOOK, was published by Subpress.