Sandford Lyne was an American poet. After graduating from the Iowa Writers Workshop, he worked frequently with children in need. He encouraged me at a critical juncture, and I still miss our conversations about poetry.
As the year comes to a close, I find myself in a reflective mood. Having compiled a list of the more than 350 poets I have mentioned on my website since I began writing about poetry in 2003, I was curious to discover which poets I have mentioned most often in the last ten years. …
A new spate of plagiarism incidents in the poetry world has me wondering what satisfaction could possibly come from gaining recognition for a stolen poem. I believe that it is a symptom of a darker issue at work in contemporary poetry, where we have come to value product over process, poet over poetry, prize over …
“…I’m sure it was a noble, / heavenly poet / heart made mature / by shadow and science.” -Antonio Machado, “The Water Wheel” By the time you read this, I will have just landed in London to begin a new chapter in my life. It seems fitting, as a celebration of my Americanness in the …
“The half-time announcer at the 1969 Superbowl football game gave us this to consider: ‘The band will now execute the traditional designs and symbols of our national heritage.’ As a one-man band, I try to accomplish the same thing in my poems.” -Sandford Lyne Loch Raven Review has put together a wonderful online retrospective of …
I read a range of poems, many new pieces fueled by the MFA–and even some poems about the passing of our son. It was the first time reading them in public, save for a few I read in workshop at the last residency. It felt necessary–like it was time; another stage of honoring and letting …
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Earlier today, I heard from my father that Sandford Lyne–poet, teacher and friend–passed away this morning. He went quietly in his own home, having made his peace with this world. I will miss him fiercely. After graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the early ’70s, he went on to teach poetry at the University …
