Sherod Santos

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

Published works

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

  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.