Featured Interview Poet:
Gary Lehmann EAH: Gary, I‘ve discovered you‘re the most prolific published writer I‘ve ever spoken to — not only poet and novelist, but also playwright, essayist and article writer! Besides the crafts of writing and poetry, you‘ve written regularly about blacksmithing and shoemaking. Not surprisingly, you‘ve a keen interest in science, inventions, and inventors. Would you name some of these latter types of historical figures who‘ve appeared in your poetry? GL: Thanks.
Rochester Poet, Gary Lehmann Photo supplied by author, embellished by TCE art dept., 2009
The Centrifugal Eye’s editor,
Eve Anthony Hanninen, asks
Gary Lehmann about his conscious focus on historical biography in his life and works.
I‘ve never tried to list them before, but I‘ve written poems on Lewis Carroll, who by the way, apropos of Centrifugal Eye‘s theme this month, was a mathematician as well as a writer of fiction, Agatha Christie, who by the way, was married to an archeologist. Then there‘s the choreographer Jerome Robbins, Ulysses S. Grant, Rockwell Kent, Joseph McCarthy, Thomas Gainsborough, Amerigo Vespucci, the photographer Yousef Karsh, the Chinese Viscount of Wu, Freud, and Einstein, of course . . . Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Winston Churchill, Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt,