Authors on the Web
Guardian.co.uk, March 3, 2010
...on the margins – and explains why he believes his American mother was a self-hating Jew. Cultural critic David Lehman explains why White Christmas and Easter Parade are actually Jewish songs in his new book A Fine Romance. Sounds Jewish is produced...
Suite101.com, January 22, 2010
...includes tips on how to create a good listening environment in the classroom. Finding the best American poets David Lehman annually edits the popular poetry series The yearly anthology, which launched in 1988, features 75 poets. A guest editor is chosen...
Philly.com, December 15, 2009
...into the sociopolitical context of Cash's forgotten '60s protest album, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. David Lehman's A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Nextbook, $23) is a poet's witty and ruminative examination of how...
Haaretz, November 8, 2009
...So it is only fitting that Michael Handelzalts, in his review of the book 'A Fine Romance,' by David Lehman ('What Makes a Song Jewish?' October ), misidentifies George M. Cohan, as proud a son of Erin as ever there was, as a ben Yisrael. Now this is not...
Haaretz, September 23, 2009
...A Fine Romance Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, by David Lehman Schocken / Nextbook (Jewish Encounters series), 272 pages, $23David Lehman is passionate about what is commonly called the 'American Song Book.' The term refers to all those popular songs...
Huffington Post, April 26, 2009
...Obama's presidency. The site is chock-full of great poets, even attracting some big names like Mark Doty, David Lehman and Fanny Howe (who we featured here just last week). Starting Today is organized by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, two poets...
Washington University in St. Louis, April 1, 2009
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The Tao of Jesus Crisis, January 5, 2010
...Joseph Heller, Good As Gold by Joseph Heller, The Best American Poetry 1997 (ed. by James Tate and David Lehman), The Best American Poetry 1998 (ed. by John Hollander and David Lehman), The Best American Poetry 1999 (ed. by Robert Bly and David Lehman),...
~ Book of Kells, December 26, 2009
...Affections edited by Arielle Greenburg and Rachel Zucker. I also received The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman edited by David Wagoner (and has a poem from Martha Silano in it!), a book on organizing for the year (I know, so...
The Poet's Mews, December 24, 2009
...celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engagingnotes from the poets, Wagoner's superb introductory essay, serieseditor David Lehman's astute foreword about the current state of poetryand criticism, and cover art from the beloved poet...
Good Books, December 19, 2009
...Bloomsbury 100 Must Read Crime Novels (4) IMBA’s 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20 th Century (5) David Lehman’s Recommendations ( The Perfect Murder : 1989) (6) H. R. F. Keating’s 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books (1987) (7) Barzun and...
The Best American Poetry, December 14, 2009
...Monday, December 14 Poetry Forum: Mark Doty David Lehman, moderator 6:30 p.m., Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510, $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with...
The Best American Poetry, November 16, 2009
...and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. Welcome, Tina. In other news . . . TONIGHT: David Lehman reading: 7pm at Kavarna Cafe, at 707 E. Lake Dr. in Decatur, GA. Opening for David will be novelist Josh Russell. ...
The Best American Poetry, November 15, 2009
...and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. Welcome, Tina. In other news . . . TONIGHT: David Lehman at the 18th Annual Atlanta Book Festival : 6:30 PM Zaban Park 5342 Tilly Mill Rd Dunwoody, GA 30338 . Watch the trailer...
The Best American Poetry, November 15, 2009
...and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. Welcome, Tina. In other news . . . TONIGHT: David Lehman at the 18th Annual Atlanta Book Festival : 6:30 PM Zaban Park 5342 Tilly Mill Rd Dunwoody, GA 30338 . Watch the trailer...
1800blogger, November 12, 2009
...via e-mail « The Nuts And Bolts Of Zukofsky | Home | a paragraph with general praise for David Lehman »...
Alexandria, October 17, 2009
...Otto Penzler The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 by Dave Eggers The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman by David Wagoner and David Lehman Best American Political Writing 2009 by Royce Flippin The Best American Science and...
Wuthering Expectations, September 23, 2009
...far as the eye can see. The 1900 E. C. Stedman anthology is much more daring. Note how David Lehman's 2006 New Oxford anthology, compared to Richard Ellman's 1976 version, decimates the 19th century poets. He puts everything before the 20th century in a...
The Best American Poetry, September 22, 2009
...Join series editor David Lehman as he introduces an all-star line up of the following contributors to this year's volume, chosen by guest editor David Wagoner: John Ashbery, Mark Bibbins, Suzanne Cleary...
The Best American Poetry, September 8, 2009
...collage. So many poets also work in collage/mixed media (Joe Brainard, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Star Black, David Lehman are just a few), and I wonder why. It can't be because all of us can't draw. So what I would like to do is hear from...
The Best American Poetry, August 30, 2009
...From David Lehman's Foreword: Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to...
The Best American Poetry, August 30, 2009
...From David Lehman's Foreword: Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to...
The Best American Poetry, August 29, 2009
...at 7 PM, in the New School's Tishman Auditorium (66 West 12 Street, ground floor), series editor David Lehman will host a gala launch reading for The Best American Poetry 2009 , and it's free so we hope everyone will come except for freeloading...
The Best American Poetry, August 24, 2009
...reading palms until he saw the long life-lines on the palms of young soldiers dead on the field." David Lehman: "That's a great line." DS: "I used it in a poem." DL: "Which one?" DS: "It's in one of my last ten books."...
The Best American Poetry, August 17, 2009
...Yeshiva Boys David Lehman. Scribner, $30 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3617-1 Disarmingly casual, unexpectedly serious, alert to his predecessors and mentors in literature and in life, Best American Poetry series editor Lehman ( When a Woman...
The Best American Poetry, August 11, 2009
...A Fine Romance : Jewish Songwriters, American Songs David Lehman . Nextbook/Schocken , $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4250-8 (From Publishers Weekly, August 10, 2009): As part of the publisher's ongoing Jewish Encounters series, Lehman, poet, anthologist (...
HTMLGIANT, August 5, 2009
...I’m a little late to the party, as there are already entries from Major Jackson, Jesse Ball, David Lehman, and several others. But I’m a big fan of Mary Jo’s, and so it was exciting to enter the series via her entry, which by the way...
Bill Peschel, June 11, 2009
...1925; Athol Fugard, playwright, director, actor, Middelburg, South Africa, 1932; Allan Gurganus, novelist, Rocky Mount, N.C., 1947; David Lehman, poet, New York City, 1948. Died: Henry Clay Folger Jr., businessman, library founder, Brooklyn, N.Y.,...
The Green Lantern Press, April 28, 2009
...Obama’s presidency. The site is chock-full of great poets, even attracting some big names like Mark Doty, David Lehman and Fanny Howe (who we featured here just last week...
The Best American Poetry, April 7, 2009
...School (in room 510 of 66 West 12 Street) Paul Violi will read his poems and converse with David Lehman. Read Michael Quattrone on Paul Violi here In Khlebnikov's Aviary O you Cacklers, cackle away! O Cacklers and Cacklettes, cackle...
The Best American Poetry, April 6, 2009
...David Lehman will lecture on W. H. Auden's poetry this evening at the New School (66 West 12 Street, Room 510) at 6:30 PM. To prepare, read the Auden...
The Best American Poetry, April 5, 2009
...Coming Up at The New School (66 West 12th Street, Room 510): Monday, April 6, 6:30 PM David Lehman will lecture on W. H. Auden's poetry at 6:30 PM. To prepare, read the Auden selections in The Oxford Book of American Poetry . Among the poems Lehman...
The Best American Poetry, April 5, 2009
...Coming Up at The New School (66 West 12th Street, Room 510): Monday, April 6, 6:30 PM David Lehman will lecture on W. H. Auden's poetry at 6:30 PM. To prepare, read the Auden selections in The Oxford Book of American Poetry . Among the poems Lehman...
The Best American Poetry, April 1, 2009
...American Poetry 2009 as the next title for her acclaimed book club . President Barak Obama, along with David Lehman and contributors to the volume to appear on fall show. Details here...


