Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman (born 1950) is a Canadian poet and academic.

Life
Sherman was born in Toronto in 1950.

He earned a B.A. from York University, where he studied with Eli Mandel and Irving Layton, and co-founded and edited a literary journal, WAVES. He earned an M.A. in English literature from the University of Toronto.

He began his teaching career in 1975 at York's Atkinson College. In 1982, he was writer-in-residence at Trent University. In 1986 he was invited by the Chinese government to lecture on contemporary Canadian literature at universities and government institutions in Beijing. In 1988, he received a Canada Council grant to travel through Poland and Russia.

Sherman lives in Toronto with his wife, Marie, an artist, and their two children. He is a full-time faculty member at Sheridan College, Oakville, where he teaches Humanities and Communications; he also teaches creative writing at York.

After being diagnosed with kidney cancer, Sherman began keeping a notebook, which he turned into a memoir, Wait Time: A memoir of cancer.

Publications
BOOKS & CHAPBOOKS 2007   BLACK RIVER (poetry, Porcupine's Quill) 2000   THE WELL: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (poetry, Wolsak and Wynn) 1997   CLUSTERS (Mosaic Press) 1992   OPEN TO CURRENTS (Wolsak and Wynn) 1989   JACKSON'S POINT (Oberon Press) 1987   THE BOOK OF SALT (Oberon Press) 1985   BLACK FLAMINGO (Mosaic Press) 1983   WORDS FOR ELEPHANT MAN (Mosaic Press) 1981   THE COST OF LIVING (Mosaic Press) 1979   SNAKE MUSIC (Mosaic Press)

Non-fiction
1998   VOID AND VOICE: Essays on Literary and Historical Currents (Mosaic Press) Wait Time: A memoir of cancer

Edited
1986   RELATIONS: An Anthology of Family Poems (Editor: Mosaic Press)