Lee Stockdale, Author
As a member of his high school’s reunion committee, Lee Stockdale turned to poetry to encourage his former classmates to attend the reunion of Bronxville High School. “Nutty as the poem was, it got me thinking about the town where I grew up and why I loved it,” Stockdale says. “Poems poured out.”
The collection Bronxville contains 28 of those poems, ones that he says are a departure from those of his first collection. “Gorilla, my first book, addressed my father’s suicide or it would not have felt authentic,” Stockdale says. “My family moved to Bronxville, NY after he died, so this collection is unashamedly lighter. To illustrate, ‘Depression Bus’ won the Montana Prize for Humor, and the judge, Molly McNearney, co-head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, said the poem made her laugh out loud. It makes me really happy that people are finding the humor.”
With National Poetry Month celebrated in April, Stockdale, a North Carolina Poetry Society Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet, hopes that his poems offer readers verse that lives up to their highest expectations while offering “hope, humor, safety, fun, camaraderie and the happy universality of shelter.”
Bronxville, February, 2026, poetry, paperback, $17, by Lee Stockdale, and published by Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY. A book launch will be held at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café on Thursday, April 2, at 6 p.m. Learn more and keep up with additional appearances at LeeStockdale.com.
