Stephen Sandy

by George Dance Stephen Sandy (born August 2, 1934) is an American poet and academic.

Life
Sandy was born in Minneapolis in 1934. After serving briefly in the Navy, he entered Yale University in 1951, and graduating in 1955. In 1957 he entered the Graduate School in English at M.A. in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1963. As a graduate student he studied under [[Robert Lowell, and later worked with Archibald Macleish.

He began teaching at Brown University in 1968. In 1969 he married Virgina Scovill; the couple moved to Bennington, Vermont, and Sandy began teaching at Bennington College. The couple has a daughter, clare (born in 1976) and a son, Nathaniel (born in 1980.

Recognition
Fellowships, Awards, Appointments, etc.

Phi Beta Kappa Poet, Yale University, 2003 Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation, 2001 Final Judge, The Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, 1999 Senior Fellow in Literature, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1998 Wallace Stevens Award Jury, Academy of American Poets, 1998 Howard Moss Residency for Poetry, Yaddo, 1998 Reader’s Digest Residency for Distinguished Writers, Yaddo, 1997 Chubb LifeAmerica Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, 1993 U.S. Department of Education, Jacob J. Javits Fellows Program, Humanities Review panel, l99l; Arts Review panel, 1992, 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, l988 Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship, l988 Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, l985 NEA Poet in Residence, Y Poetry Center, Philadelphia, l985 Councilor for English, Harvard Graduate Society for Advanced Study and Research, l969-74 Phi Beta Kappa Poet, Brown University, l969 Fulbright Visiting Lectureship, Japan, l967-68

Except where noted, award information courtesy Stephen Sandy. His poetry has appeared in ''Atlantic Monthly, APR, Bad Henry Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Fence, Grand Street, Harpers, Kenyon Review. The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Michigan Quarterly Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Salamander, Salmagundi, Sonnet Scroll, Southwest Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review, TLS, Transatlantic Review, Western Humanities Review, The Yale Review, sixty other journals and reviews, here and abroad.

Work included in A Controversy of Poets (Anchor Books), A Burning Deck Anthology (Burning Deck), The New Yorker Book of Poems (Morrow), The New York Times Book of Verse (Macmillan), The Enduring Beast (Doubleday), Seasonal Performances (Michigan), Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS (Crown, l989; Persea Books, l992); The Best American Poetry 1995, ed. R. Howard & D. Lehman, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995; The Best American Poetry 1998, ed. Hollander & Lehman: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998; and in anthologies such as A Good Man, Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (Fawcett, 1993).

Collections

 * Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., l967.
 * Roofs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., l97l.
 * End of the Picaro (chapbook). Pawlet, VT: Banyan Press, 1974.
 * Flight of Steps (chapbook). Binghamton, NY: Bellevue Press, 1982.
 * Riding to Greylock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l983.
 * To A Mantis (chapbook). North Hoosick, NY: Plinth Press, 1987.
 * Man in the Open Air. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, l988.
 * The Epoch (chapbook). North Bennington, VT: Plinth Press, 1990.
 * Thanksgiving Over the Water. New York: Alfred A.Knopf, l992; paper, 1994.
 * Vale of Academe, A prose poem for Bernard Malamud (chapbook). Spartanburg: Holocene Press, 1996.
 * Marrow Spoon (chapbook). North Bennington: Garlic Mouth Press, 1997.
 * The Thread, New and selected poems. Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
 * Black Box. Baton Rouge, LA, & London: Louisiana State University. Press, 1999.
 * Surface Impressions. Baton Rouge, LA, & London: Louisiana State University. Press, 2002.
 * Weathers Permitting. Baton Rouge, LA, & London: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Non-fiction

 * The Raveling of the Novel, Studies in Romantic Fiction from Walpole to Scott. New York: Arno Press, l980.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Stephen Sandy. Curriculum Vitae, Stephen Sandy, Web, Nov. 25, 2012.