Lyrical poetry on the process of aging and the transition from one life-stage to another, on the passing of time and its relentless impact on masculinity and the male image, and on on the place of the solitary individual in 21st Century America.
Lyman Grant is a poet living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. 2018: Found Poems and Weather Reports is his seventh collection of poems. Previous work includes Old Men on Tuesday Mornings (also by Alamo Bay Press), As Long as We Need (Black Buzzard Press), and The Road Home (Dalton Press). His essays, reviews, and poems have been published in many journals and anthologies, including Dallas Morning News, Texas Humanist, Texas Observer, descant, RE:AL, Concho River Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Langdon Review, and Big Land Big Sky Big Hair. He attended both the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. In addition, his work been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and won first place in The Great American Wise Ass Anthology. He has degrees from The University of Texas and Texas A&M University, and has worked at Austin Community College for over 40 years as professor, department chair, and as dean.