American poet (born 1940)
Hugh Seidman (1940 – November 9, 2023) was an Americanpoet.
Seidman was born inBrooklyn, NY in 1940.[1] He was a graduate ofPolytechnic Institute of New York University,[2] where he studied underLouis Zukofsky.[3] His first book of poetry was published whenStanley Kunitz selected it as the winner of the 1970Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.[3]
Seidman taught writing at theUniversity of Wisconsin,Yale University,Columbia University, theCollege of William and Mary,The New School.[4]
His work appeared inThe Brooklyn Rail,[5]Harper's,[6]The Paris Review,[7]Virginia Quarterly Review.[8]
Seidman died on November 9, 2023 after a long illness.[1]
- 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) forSOMEBODY STAND UP AND SING
- 2003, 1990 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant[9]
- 1990 Camden Poetry Award (Walt Whitman Center for the Arts)
- 1985, 1972, 1970National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 1971 New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant
- 1970Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Selected bibliography
[edit]- "Case History: Melancholia",Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- "The Daily Racing Form",Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- "On the Other Side of the Poem",Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2000
- Collecting Evidence. Yale University Press. 1970.ISBN 978-0-300-01322-1.
- People Live, They Have Lives. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press. 1992.ISBN 978-1-881163-03-9.
- Selected Poems: 1965-1995. Miami University Press. 1995.ISBN 978-1-881163-10-7.
- Throne, Falcon, Eye: Poems. Unmuzzled Ox Press.ISBN 978-0-934450-53-9.
- Blood Lord. Doubleday. 1974.ISBN 978-0-385-08172-6.
- 12 views of Freetown, 1 view of Bumbuna, (Half Moon Bay Press), 2003.
- Somebody stand up and sing. New Issues, Western Michigan University. 2005.ISBN 978-1-930974-53-1.
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