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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry. The Lichtenberg Figures appeared in a German translation in 2010. Born and raised in Topeka, which figures in each of his books of poetry, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School. At Brown University he earned a B.A. in Political Theory and an MFA in Poetry. He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006 and was subsequently named a finalist for the National Book Award, and was selected by Brian Foley as one of the 25 important books of poetry of the 00s (2000-2009) . Lerner's third full-length poetry collection, Mean Free Path, was published in 2010. Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

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