Edward Lense

Poet and photographer Edward Lense was professor of English at The Columbus College of Art and Design from 1976 to 2007 and served as advisor to the student literary and visual arts magazine Botticelli (1976-2000). A three-time Ohio Arts Council Award winner in poetry and criticism, he wrote novels, short stories, reviews, a libretto, meditations, and homilies and translated poetry from Anglo-Saxon. He also taught English as a second language to Somali refugees.

Poet and photographer Edward Lense was professor of English at The Columbus College of Art and Design from 1976 to 2007 and served as advisor to the student literary and visual arts magazine Botticelli (1976-2000). A three-time Ohio Arts Council Award winner in poetry and criticism, he wrote novels, short stories, reviews, a libretto, meditations, and homilies and translated poetry from Anglo-Saxon. He also taught English as a second language to Somali refugees. See less