Henry Lyman is an American poet, editor, translator, and former host and producer of
WFCR
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's ''Poems to a Listener'', a nationally distributed series of readings and conversations with poets which ran from 1976 to 1994.
His poems and translations have appeared in periodicals, including
The Nation
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, the
New Directions annuals,
The New York Times
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, and
Poetry
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.
["Into the Sun", The Jones Library, Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts, pub., 2009.] A translator of the Estonian poet
Aleksis Rannit, Lyman's translations have been published in two volumes, Cantus Firmus and Signum et Verbum.
He edited a posthumously published collection of
Robert Francis's poetry, and an anthology of twentieth-century
New England
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poetry titled After Frost.
Lyman also maintains
Fort Juniper, the home of American poet Robert Francis, as a residence for writers, composers, and artists.
References
Further reading
* After Frost: An Anthology of Poetry from New England ,
University of Massachusetts Press
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, 1996.
External links
Poems to a Listener, NPR Online Archiveimage of an interview: Faulkner, Frank, "Robert Francis with Henry Lyman, Poems to a Listener host," in Digital Amherst, Item #81
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20th-century American poets
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)