Henry Lyman

For the American missionary killed on Sumatra 1834 Henry Lyman (missionary)

Henry Lyman is an American poet, editor, translator, and former host and producer of WFCR's Poems to a Listener, a nationally distributed series of readings and conversations with poets which ran from 1976 to 1994.^[1][2]

His poems and translations have appeared in periodicals, including The Nation, the New Directions annuals, The New York Times, and Poetry.^[3] A translator of the Estonian poet Aleksis Rannit, Lyman's translations have been published in two volumes, Cantus Firmus and Signum et Verbum.^[4] He edited a posthumously published collection of Robert Francis's poetry, and an anthology of twentieth-century New England poetry titled After Frost.^[1] Lyman also maintains Fort Juniper, the home of American poet Robert Francis, as a residence for writers, composers, and artists.^[3]

Books

• After Frost: An Anthology of Poetry from New England ISBN 978-1-55849-041-3, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

References

External links

• Poems to a Listener, NPR Online Archive
• image of an interview: Faulkner, Frank, "Robert Francis with Henry Lyman, Poems to a Listener host," in Digital Amherst, Item #81