Lesle Lewis is an American poet and professor. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently "A Boot's a Boot", winner of the 2013 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Competition. In reviewing her previous collection, ''lie down too,'' winner of the 2010

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, 2011). ''Publishers Weekly,'' wrote "Few poets handle both syntax and sound as she does, and few flirt so well both with, and against, common sense, with and against ordinary adult experience." Her first collection, ''Small Boat'' (

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, 2003), won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including ''American Letters and Commentary'', ''Green Mountains Review'', ''Barrow Street'', ''Pool'', ''The Hollins Critic'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', and ''Jubilat,'' and featured on the

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website. Lewis earned a B.S. in education at the

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, an M.A.L.S. in English at

Keene State College Keene State College is a public liberal arts college in Keene, New Hampshire. It is part of the University System of New Hampshire and the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Founded in 1909 as a teacher's college (originally, Keene Norma ...

, and an M.F.A. in poetry from the

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. She teaches at

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in Putney, Vermont, and lives in

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.Author Profile: New Hampshire State Council on the Arts > Arts & Artists > Featured Poet
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Published works

* ''Rainy Days on the Farm.'' Fence Books, 2019 * ''A Boot's a Boot.'' Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014 * ''It's Rothko in Winter or Belgium.'' Factory Hollow Press, 2012 * ''lie down too.'' Alice James Books, 2011 * ''Landscapes I & II.'' Alice James Books, 2006 * ''Small Boat.'' University of Iowa Press, 2003

References

External links

Landmark College > Faculty Bio > Lesle Lewis

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