Leigh Buckner Hanes

Poet Information

Leigh Buckner Hanes

About the Poet

Leigh Buckner Hanes was an advisory board member of the Poetry Society of Virginia and a member of the Virginia Bar Association. He was born in 1893 and died in 1967.

He practiced law in Roanoke and was the editor of The Lyric (oldest poetry magazine in North America), from 1929-1949. He was the author of Song of the New Hercules and Other Poems (1930) Green Girdle (1939) The Star That I See (1950) and Wide the Gate: Poems 1925-1957 (1957).

Hanes was Poet Laureate of Virginia in 1949.

From the Poetry Society of Virginia

Region

West Central

Virginia City or County Affiliation

Roanoke, Virginia

Gender

Male

Race/Ethnicity

White

Year of Birth

1893-1967

Published Works or Performances

• Green Girdle. The Lyric Press, 1939.
• Song of the New Hercules, and Other Poems. The Four Seas Company, 1930.
• The Star That I See. Brenburn Press, 1950.
• Wide the Gate: Poems, 1925-1967. Golden Quill Press, 1957.

Selected Individual Poems or Performances

• Beneath Apple Blossoms, 1926.

• Lines at the Home of Mary Mother of Washington, 1926.

• Trees in a Winter Storm, 1930.