Lesley Wheeler Explained

Website:https://lesleywheeler.org/about/
Discipline:literary criticism
Workplaces:Washington and Lee University

Lesley Wheeler is an American poet and literary scholar. She is the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

Education and career

Wheeler was born in Baldwin, New York. She earned her bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is currently the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

In 2015, Wheeler joined the board of trustees of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs as the Mid Atlantic Regional Council Chair.[1]

Works

Wheeler has published four books of poetry: Radioland (Barrow Street 2015),[2] The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct 2012),[3] Heterotopia (Barrow Street 2010),[4] and Heathen (C&R 2009).[5]

She has published two books of literary scholarship: Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present (Cornell UP 2008)[6] and The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove (U of Tennessee P 2002)[7] She also co-edited the collection Letters to the World: Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen 2008).[8]

Her works have been reviewed in Poets’ Quarterly,[9] Salamander,[10] Takahē,[11] Strange Horizons,[12] Poet Lore, Rattle,[13] Kestrel,[14] New Pages, Verse Wisconsin,[15] Yanaguana Literary Review,[16] Blackbird,[17] Mid-American Review, Calyx, Junctures, Prairie Schooner,[18] and other venues.

Honors

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Academic works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AWP: Directory of Members . Awpwriter.org . 2015-10-01 . 2016-04-22.
  2. Web site: House Guest with Lesley Wheeler: every literary world is imaginary – Ecotone + Lookout Blog . Ecotonelookout.org . 2015-10-14 . 2016-04-22.
  3. Web site: Conversation Pieces . Aqueductpress.com . 2016-04-22.
  4. Web site: HETEROTOPIA, LESLEY WHEELER | Barrow Street Inc . Barrowstreet.org . 2014-10-11 . 2016-04-22.
  5. Web site: C&R Press . Crpress.org . 2016-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160428073739/http://www.crpress.org/product/heathen/ . 2016-04-28 . dead .
  6. Web site: Voicing American Poetry, Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present . Cornellpress.cornell.edu . 2008-05-01 . 2016-04-22.
  7. Book: The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove . Lesley Wheeler . 153 . 2002 . Univ. of Tennessee Press . 9781572331976 . 2016-04-22.
  8. Web site: Letters To The World: Poems From The Wom-Po . PEN South Africa . 2008-03-01 . 2016-04-22.
  9. Web site: Nielsen . Leslie L. . Poets' Quarterly: Review: Radioland by Lesley Wheeler . Poetsquarterly.com . 2015-11-18 . 2016-04-22.
  10. Web site: Salamander Magazine | a magazine for poetry, fiction, & memoirs . Salamandermag.org . 2015-12-15 . 2016-04-22.
  11. Web site: Joanna Preston . Lesley Wheeler – Radioland – takahē magazine . Takahe.org.nz . 2015-12-07 . 2016-04-22.
  12. Web site: Strange Horizons Reviews: 2015 in Review, reviewed by Our Reviewers . Strangehorizons.com . 2016-04-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307161918/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2016/01/2015_in_review.shtml . 2016-03-07 .
  13. Web site: HETEROTOPIA by Lesley Wheeler | Rattle: Poetry . Rattle . 2010-11-15 . 2016-04-22.
  14. Web site: Archived copy . www.fairmontstate.edu . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170330121745/https://www.fairmontstate.edu/kestrel/sites/default/files/reviews/Review%20of%20Lesley%20Wheeler%20Heathen%20and%20Heterotopia.pdf . 30 March 2017 . dead.
  15. Web site: Verse Wisconsin 105| Review of Lesley Wheeler . Versewisconsin.org . 2016-04-22.
  16. Web site: Review of Leslie Wheeler's Heterotopia . Library.stmarytx.edu . 2016-04-22.
  17. Web site: Review of Heathen by Lesley Wheeler, Grant White . Blackbird.vcu.edu . 2016-04-22.
  18. Web site: Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler, eds. Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po LISTSERV.(Book review) - Prairie Schooner | HighBeam Research . www.highbeam.com . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160910215918/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-207935155.html . 10 September 2016 . dead.
  19. Web site: VCCA Annual Report 2013 . Vcca.com . 2016-04-22.
  20. Web site: Notkin . Debbie . 2012 James Tiptree, Jr. Award « James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award . Tiptree.org . 2014-10-31 . 2016-04-22.
  21. Web site: Outstanding Faculty Awards - Lesley Wheeler . Schev.edu . 2016-04-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160509201208/http://www.schev.edu/adminfaculty/ofa/2012/12Wheeler.asp . 2016-05-09 .
  22. Web site: Fulbright New Zealand 2011 . Fulbright.org.nz . 2016-04-22.
  23. Web site: Finalists and Winners of the Library of Virginia Annual Literary Awards . Lva.virginia.gov . 2016-04-22.
  24. Web site: W&L Professor Awarded Artist's Fellowship in Poetry from Virginia Commission for the Arts :: Washington and Lee University . Wlu.edu . 2016-04-22.
  25. Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities : 2005 Annual Report . Neh.gov . 2016-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161219191902/https://www.neh.gov/files/about/legal/2005_neh_annual_report.pdf . 2016-12-19 . dead .

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