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Sydney Lea

A former Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Poets’ Prize, Sydney Lea served as founding editor of New England Review and was Vermont’s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015.  He is the author of 23 books, the latest “Seen from All Sides: Lyric and Everyday Life,” essays; fourteen of these volumes are poetry collections, the most recent of which is Here (Four Way Books, NYC, 2019). In 2021, he was presented with his home state of Vermont’s most prestigious artist’s distinction: the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

 

  • About Mending Walls…Sort of, by Sydney Lea

    The COVID-19 scourge has moved a horde of people to my home state,
    Issue #128 April 2022

  • Alone at 77 & I Arrive at the Scene

    Unhungry, he cracks a single egg.

  • Inviting the Reader: Narrative Values, Lyric Poems by Sydney Lea

    Inviting the Reader: Narrative Values, Lyric Poems by Sydney Lea   The editor of an online journal recently asked 25…

    Issue #108 August 2020

  • A Brief Portfolio: Five Poems

    I found this suitcase slumped in a dark attic corner

  • The Big Blow

    After the snow-soused April gale I wandered

  • Walking into Metaphor

    A few weeks back, while snow persisted, no matter it was April, I headed into the woods, in part
    Issue #95 July 2019

  • But-cept

    I recall not wanting my oldest son

  • Photographs, 1949 | Retiree

    In one, they pose, grinning straight at the Kodak,

  • Of Course

    If I wake at 3, ephemerality

  • OLD HUSBAND’S TALES

    I’m one who tells old husbands’ tales, not wives’,

  • Annie Fitch’s Duck Sauce

    I must be prepared to sit

  • Abbatoir Time

    The widower pushed the tailgate shut and fell.