Jump to content

Sherod Santos: Difference between revisions

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
→Honors & Awards: add links
Added most recent book publication and award, corrected three factual errors
 
(44 intermediate revisions by 30 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|American poet}}
'''Sherod Santos''' (born September 9, 1948 [[Greenville, South Carolina]]) is an American [[poet]], essayist and professor. <ref>{{cite book| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=Sherod+Santos+ingram+merrill&source=bl&ots=W6Vd8Zxgwd&sig=U-ljEDBV7KHujFy0J0WFBqQ0fDg&hl=en&ei=KBIwS_yjOIPINd2B9fUI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=Sherod%20Santos%20ingram%20merrill&f=false| title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis | date= 2004| isbn= 9781857431780 }}</ref> His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, ''The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems'' ([[W.W. Norton]], 2010). His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Antioch Review'',<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=WfkDAAAAYAAJ&q=Sherod+Santos+perishing&dq=Sherod+Santos+perishing&lr=</ref> ''The New Yorker'',<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=Sherod+Santos+&queryType=nonparsed&submitbtn.x=43&submitbtn.y=8</ref> ''The Paris Review'',<ref>http://www.parisreview.com/results.php?prmKeyword=Sherod%20Santos</ref> ''The Nation'',<ref>http://www.thenation.com/search/?search=Sherod%20Santos</ref> ''Poetry'', ''The Yale Review'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', and ''Parnassus''.


'''Sherod Santos''' (born September 9, 1948 in [[South Carolina]]) is an American [[poet]], [[List of essayists|essayist]], [[Translators|translator]] and [[playwright]].<ref>{{cite book|title = International Who's Who in Poetry 2004|publisher = Taylor & Francis|year = 2004|isbn = 978-1-85743-178-0}}</ref> He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently''The Burning World'' (Arrowsmith Press) in 2024, and ''Square Inch Hours'' (W.W. Norton) in 2017. Individual poems have appeared in ''The New Yorker'',<ref name="newyorker">{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=Sherod+Santos+&queryType=nonparsed&submitbtn.x=43&submitbtn.y=8|title=Page not found - The New Yorker|publisher=newyorker.com|accessdate=2014-10-11}}</ref> ''The Paris Review'',<ref>http://www.parisreview.com/results.php?prmKeyword=Sherod%20Santos{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''The Nation'',<ref name="thenation">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thenation.com/search/?search=Sherod%20Santos|title=Home &#124; The Nation|date=28 September 2011 |publisher=thenation.com|accessdate=2014-10-11 |last1=Trillin |first1=Calvin }}</ref> ''Poetry'', ''Proscenium Theatre Journal, American Poetry Review'', and ''The New York Times Book Review''. His plays have been produced at The Algonquin Theatre in New York City, The Royal Court Theatre in London, The Side Project in Chicago, the Brooklyn International Theatre Festival, and the Flint Michigan Play Festival. Santos also wrote the settings for the Sappho poems in the CD ''Magus Insipiens'', composed by Paul Sanchez and sung by soprano Kayleen Sanchez.
Hi many honors and awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill fellowships, and Pushcart prizes. His book, ''The Pilot Star Elegies'' (W.W. Norton, 2000), was a finalist for the 1999 [[National Book Award]];<ref>[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1999.html National Book Foundation > National Book Awards > 1999]</ref> and from 1990 to 1997, Santos served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House in Portmuck, Northern Ireland, and in 1999 he received an Award for Literary Excellence from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]. <ref>http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/350</ref>


His many honors and awards include an Academy Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize. He was a finalist for ''The New Yorker'' Book Award in Poetry as well as The National Book Critics Circle Award and The National Book Award. From 1990 to 1998 he served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House outside Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Santos was born in South Carolina and graduated from [[San Diego State University]] with a B.A. and M.A., and studied at the [[University of California, Irvine]] and the [[University of Utah]]. He is a professor of English at the [[University of Missouri]].<ref>http://www.nortonpoets.com/santoss.htm</ref>

He lives in Santa Fe, where he works with a hunger relief program serving the nine counties of Northern New Mexico.


==Honors and awards==
==Honors and awards==
* 2024 Selected for ''Best Literary Translations 2024''
⚫
* 2002 [[Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize|Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize]] for ''The Pilot Star Elegies''
* 2006 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities for ''Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation''
⚫
* 2002 [[Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize|Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize]] for ''The Pilot Star Elegies''
* 2001 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] for Criticism Finalist for ''A Poetry of Two Minds''
* 2000 [[National Book Award]] Finalist
* 1999 Academy Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts & Letters
* 1999 ''[[The New Yorker]]'' Book Award in Poetry Finalist
* 1998 [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]] from the ''Paris Review'' for "Elegy for My Sister"
* 1998 [[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]] from the ''Paris Review'' for "Elegy for My Sister"
* 1987 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] fellowship
* 1987 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] fellowship
* 1995 [[British Arts Council]] International Travel Grant
* 1984 appointment as Robert Frost Poet at [[the Frost Place]] in [[Franconia, New Hampshire]]
* 1984 [[The Frost Place|The Robert Frost Place]] poet in residence in Franconia, New Hampshire
* 1983 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award
* 1983 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award
* 1983 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref>http://www.gf.org/fellows/12888-sherod-santos</ref>
* 1983 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]<ref name="gf">{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/12888-sherod-santos|title=Sherod Santos - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|publisher=gf.org|accessdate=2014-10-11|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017055910/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12888-sherod-santos|archivedate=2014-10-17}}</ref>
* 1982 Ingram Merrill fellowship
* 1982 [[Ingram Merrill Foundation]] fellowship
* 1981 Oscar Blumenthal Prize from ''Poetry magazine''
* 1981 Oscar Blumenthal Prize from ''Poetry magazine''
* 1980 Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay
* 1980 Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay
* 1978 "Discovery"/The Nation Award
* 1978 "Discovery"/''[[The Nation]]'' Award


==Published Works==
==Published works==
'''Full-Length Poetry Collections'''
'''Full-Length Poetry Collections'''


* ''The Burning World.'' Arrowsmith Press. 2024, <nowiki>ISBN 979-8-9863401-5-9</nowiki>
* {{cite book| title=The Intricated Soul| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company | date=2010| isbn=9780393072167 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Perishing| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| date=2004| isbn=9780393325768 }}
* ''Square Inch Hours.'' W. W. Norton & Company. 2017, {{ISBN|0393254984}}
* {{cite book| title=The Pilot Star Elegies| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| date=2000| isbn=9780393320497 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Intricated Soul| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company | year=2010| isbn=978-0-393-07216-7 }}
* {{cite book| title=The City of Women| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| date=1994| isbn=9780393311754 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Perishing| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=2004| isbn=978-0-393-32576-8 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Southern Reaches| publisher= Wesleyan| date=February 1, 1989| isbn=9780819511607 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Pilot Star Elegies| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=2000| isbn=978-0-393-32049-7 }}
* {{cite book| title=Accidental Weather| publisher=Doubleday| date=1982| isbn=9780385180511 }}
* {{cite book| title=The City of Women| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=1994| isbn=978-0-393-31175-4 }}
* ''The Southern Reaches.'' Wesleyan University Press. 1989.
* {{cite book| title=Begin, distance: poems| publisher=Greenhouse Review Press| date=1981 }} (chapbook)
* ''Accidental Weather.'' Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1982.


'''Essay Collections'''
'''Essay Collections'''
* {{cite book| title=A poetry of two minds | publisher=University of Georgia Press| date=2000| isbn=9780820322049| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kroVh1A8SjoC&pg=PP1&dq=Sherod+Santos+poet&lr=#v=onepage&q=Sherod%20Santos%20poet&f=false }}
* {{cite book| title=A Poetry of Two Minds | publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-8203-2204-9| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kroVh1A8SjoC&q=Sherod+Santos+poet&pg=PP1 }}

'''Translations'''
* ''[[Greek lyric poetry|Greek Lyric Poetry]]: A New Translation.'' W. W. Norton & Company. 2005 {{ISBN|0-393-06056-X}}

'''Plays'''
* ''Follow the Leader.'' Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2016.
* ''Lives of the Pigeons.'' Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2013
* ''Star.'' Produced at Algonquin Theatre, New York City, 2010
* ''Coffee Shop.'' Produced as part of Flint Michigan Play Festival, 2010


==References==
==References==
Line 37: Line 56:
* [http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/santos_reads_variation_on_a_theme/ Audio: Sherod Santos reads ''Variation on a Theme (I)'' from ''The Intricated Soul'']
* [http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/santos_reads_variation_on_a_theme/ Audio: Sherod Santos reads ''Variation on a Theme (I)'' from ''The Intricated Soul'']
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2188046/ Poems: ''Slate Magazine'' > May 6, 2008 > ''A Place in Maine'' by Sherod Santos]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2188046/ Poems: ''Slate Magazine'' > May 6, 2008 > ''A Place in Maine'' by Sherod Santos]
* [http://www.poetrysociety.org/ssantospoem.html Poems: Poetry Society of America > ''The Book of Blessings'' by Sherod Santos]
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/ssantospoem.html |title=Poems: Poetry Society of America > ''The Book of Blessings'' by Sherod Santos |access-date=2009-08-09 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020914053335/http://www.poetrysociety.org/ssantospoem.html |archive-date=2002-09-14 |url-status=dead }}
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171917 Poem: Poetry Foundation > from ''Elegy for My Sister'' by Sherod Santos]
* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171917 Poem: Poetry Foundation > from ''Elegy for My Sister'' by Sherod Santos]
* [http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/santoswriters.html Poem: ''Valpariso Poetry Review'' > ''A Writer's Life'' by Sherod Santos]
* [http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/santoswriters.html Poem: ''Valpariso Poetry Review'' > ''A Writer's Life'' by Sherod Santos]


{{Authority control}}
⚫
{{DEFAULTSORT:Santos, Sherrod}}

⚫
{{DEFAULTSORT:Santos, Sherod}}
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:1948 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American poets]]
[[Category:San Diego State University alumni]]
[[Category:San Diego State University alumni]]
[[Category:University of California, Irvine alumni]]
[[Category:University of California, Irvine alumni]]
[[Category:University of Utah alumni]]
[[Category:University of Utah alumni]]
[[Category:University of Missouri faculty]]
[[Category:University of Missouri faculty]]
[[Category:People from South Carolina]]
[[Category:Poets from South Carolina]]
[[Category:Writers from South Carolina]]
[[Category:People from Missouri]]
[[Category:Writers from Missouri]]
[[Category:The New Yorker people]]
[[Category:The New Yorker people]]
[[Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows]]
[[Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows]]
[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
[[Category:American academics]]
[[Category:American essayists]]
[[Category:American essayists]]

Latest revision as of 23:19, 6 April 2024

Sherod Santos (born September 9, 1948 in South Carolina) is an American poet, essayist, translator and playwright.[1] He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recentlyThe Burning World (Arrowsmith Press) in 2024, and Square Inch Hours (W.W. Norton) in 2017. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker,[2] The Paris Review,[3] The Nation,[4] Poetry, Proscenium Theatre Journal, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times Book Review. His plays have been produced at The Algonquin Theatre in New York City, The Royal Court Theatre in London, The Side Project in Chicago, the Brooklyn International Theatre Festival, and the Flint Michigan Play Festival. Santos also wrote the settings for the Sappho poems in the CD Magus Insipiens, composed by Paul Sanchez and sung by soprano Kayleen Sanchez.

His many honors and awards include an Academy Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize. He was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award in Poetry as well as The National Book Critics Circle Award and The National Book Award. From 1990 to 1998 he served as external examiner and poet-in-residence at the Poets' House outside Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He lives in Santa Fe, where he works with a hunger relief program serving the nine counties of Northern New Mexico.

Honors and awards

[edit]

Published works

[edit]

Full-Length Poetry Collections

  • The Burning World. Arrowsmith Press. 2024, ISBN 979-8-9863401-5-9
  • Square Inch Hours. W. W. Norton & Company. 2017, ISBN 0393254984
  • The Intricated Soul. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7.
  • The Perishing. W. W. Norton & Company. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32576-8.
  • The Pilot Star Elegies. W. W. Norton & Company. 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-32049-7.
  • The City of Women. W. W. Norton & Company. 1994. ISBN 978-0-393-31175-4.
  • The Southern Reaches. Wesleyan University Press. 1989.
  • Accidental Weather. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1982.

Essay Collections

Translations

Plays

  • Follow the Leader. Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2016.
  • Lives of the Pigeons. Produced at The Side Project, Chicago, IL, 2013
  • Star. Produced at Algonquin Theatre, New York City, 2010
  • Coffee Shop. Produced as part of Flint Michigan Play Festival, 2010

References

[edit]
  1. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  2. ^ "Page not found - The New Yorker". newyorker.com. Retrieved 2014-10-11. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  3. ^ http://www.parisreview.com/results.php?prmKeyword=Sherod%20Santos[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Trillin, Calvin (28 September 2011). "Home | The Nation". thenation.com. Retrieved 2014-10-11. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  5. ^ "Sherod Santos - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". gf.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherod_Santos&oldid=1217626795"