Sydney Lea
August 28, 2014
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Sydney Lea, a former Pulitzer finalist, founded and for thirteen years edited New England Review. His thirteenth collection of poems, Here, is due from Four Way Books next year. Likewise, Vermont’s Green Writers Press will soon publish The Music of What Happens: Lyric and Everyday Life, his collected newspaper columns from his years (2011-15) as Vermont Poet Laureate. In summer of ’18, Green Writers Press re-issued his collaborative book of essays with former Delaware laureate Fleda Brown, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives.
Work by Sydney Lea has been included in Issues 20.1, 16.1, 13.2, 13.1, 8.1, 3.1, and 2.1, as well as the Beautiful Things series.