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Hugh Seidman

American poet (1940–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hugh Seidman (1940 – November 9, 2023) was an American poet.

Life

Seidman was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1940.[1] He was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of New York University,[2] where he studied under Louis Zukofsky.[3] His first book of poetry was published when Stanley Kunitz selected it as the winner of the 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.[3]

Seidman taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, The New School.[4]

His work appeared in The 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]

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Awards

  • 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) for SOMEBODY 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, 1970 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
  • 1971 New York State Creative Artists Public Service grant
  • 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

Selected bibliography

  • "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.

Anthologies

Criticism

References

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