Gary Lenhart

Gary Lenhart (1947-2021) received his BA from Sienna College, MA from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and completed course work for a PhD in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University before joining the Lower East Side poetry community. He worked as administrator and ran two reading series and a workshop at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, handled foreign rights for the Curtis Brown literary agency, and was associate director for Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The World in a Minute (Hanging Loose, 2010), Father and Son Night (Hanging Loose, 1999), Light Heart (Hanging Loose, 1991) and One at a Time (United Artists, 1983). His published prose includes The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and Another Look: Selected Prose (Subpress, 2010). He edited the magazines Mag City (with Michael Scholnick and Gregory Masters) and Transfer. He co-edited Clinch: Selected Poems of Michael Scholnick (Coffee House, 1998), The Teachers &Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams (1998), and the T&W Guide to Classic American Literature (2001). His poems, reviews and essays appeared in American Poetry Review, American Book Review, Exquisite Corpse, The World, Sagetrieb, Poetry Flash, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, The Poetry Project Newsletter and Roads Taken. He was panelist, and his work was discussed, at several literary conferences and symposia. He translated poems and essays from French, Spanish, and Italian, taught at Columbia University, Mercy College, LIU-Brooklyn, and was senior lecturer at Dartmouth College from 1996 -2019.