Poetry. "Gary Lenhart's brilliant meditations on family life and love seek out the perfect middle distance where there are no limitations on self or selfhood, no objective/subjective borders."—Lewis Warsh

"Tender heart, nimble wit, and tough mind radiate thoughout Gary Lenhart's poems of numinous domesticity, poems that are so well made that their craftsmanship is invisible—the ultimate graciousness of art."—Ron Padgett

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.