Sydney Lea

Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor, and is the Poet Laureate of Vermont. His most recent book is A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling (Storyline Press, 2006), and he has a ninth collection of poetry, Young of the Year, now out from Four Way Books. He has taught for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, and at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Vermont College, Middlebury College, Franklin University Switzerland, and the National Hungarian University.  He founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it till 1989. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Virginia Quarterly Review. He is one of 25 poets featured in the highly influential 1996 anthology, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. He lives in Newbury, Vermont.  His work "Mudtime" has been set as a long form song cycle for voice and string quartet by the composer Joseph Hallman which the poet described as "a high point of my term as poet laureate. It's been so refreshing and so different, a great shot in the arm.",.  It was premiered in 2014 by Hallman's long term collaborator, Abigail Haynes-Lennox and the 802 Quartet at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Honors and awards
 2011 appointed Poet Laureate of Vermont
 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Pursuit of a Wound
 1998 Poets' Prize, for To the Bone: New and Selected Poems
 1992 Fulbright Scholarship
 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship 
 1985 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
 
 
 
 
 
 

Novels
   1st edition Scribner's 1989

Essay Collections
 
   1st edition
 

Anthology Publications
 

Anthologies Edited

References

External links
Author's Website
"Interview With Poet Sydney Lea", Poetic Asides, August 11, 2009
 Poems: "Mudtime In the County", Virginia quarterly Review, Autumn 1995
 Poems: "Canary Weather", Virginia quarterly Review, Autumn 1995
 Poems: "Children, Singing", The Atlantic, December 2003
 Essay: "The Death Of A Hunting Dog", Sports Illustrated, December 02, 1991

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