Presented in partnership with FIU Creative Writing Program's Writers on the Bay Series, David Lehman will be Writer-in-Residence at The Betsy.

In an interview with Tom Disch in the Cortland Review Lehman addresses his great variety of poetic styles: "I write in a lot of different styles and forms on the theory that the poems all sound like me in the end, so why not make them as different from one another as possible, at least in outward appearance? If you write a new poem every day, you will probably have by the end of the year, if you're me, an acrostic, an abecedarium, a sonnet or two, a couple of prose poems, poems that have arbitrary restrictions, such as the one I did that has only two words per line."

Lehman has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and received an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. Lehman divides his time between Ithaca, New York, and New York City. He is married to Stacey Harwood. (Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/david-lehman/biography/)

Lehman will host a reading at FIU Writers on the Bay and a private Dinner Salon at The Betsy.