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Sophie Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black
Born 1958
New York, New York, United States
Education Marlboro College (B.A., 1980)
Columbia University (M.F.A., 1984)
Parents David Black
Linda Cabot Black

Sophie Cabot Black (born 1958) is an American poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University.[1]

Life[]

Youth[]

Black was born in New York City, and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut.[2] Her father is David Black (born 1931), a Broadway producer, actor, teacher, writer and artistic director. Her mother is Linda Cabot Black, cofounder of Opera Company of Boston and Opera New England.[3] She has 1: actor Jeremy Black, who appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil.[4]

In 1980, Black earned a B.A. from Marlboro College. In 1984, she graduated from Columbia University, earning an M.F.A..[5]

Career[]

Black's poetry has appeared in publications including AGNI,[6] The Atlantic Monthly,[7] Boston Review,[8] The Paris Review, Poetry, Fence, APR, Bomb, The New Yorker,[9] and The New Republic. Various anthologies have also included her work, such as More Light: Father & Daughter Poems, The Best American Poetry 1993 (edited by Louise Glück), and Looking for Home: Women in Exile.[10]

Black lives in New York and Wilton, Connecticut. As of late 2003, she was teaching at Columbia.[2]

Recognition[]

Black has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (1988), the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1988), and, most recently, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.[10]

The Misunderstanding of Nature (1994), her first collection of poems, received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award

Awards[]

  • Grolier Poetry Prize, 1988
  • John Masefield Award from the Poetry Society of America, 1989[10]
  • Emerging Poets Award from Judith's Room, 1990[10]
  • Connecticut Book Award for Poetry, 2005

In popular culture[]

A poem by Black was used in a song on an album by Akiko Yano.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]

Other[]

Sophie_Cabot_Black_reads_at_the_2014_Dodge_Poetry_Festival

Sophie Cabot Black reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival

Black's translations of Latin American poetry have been included in the anthologies You Can't Drown the Fire and Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A bilingual anthology.

Her essays appear in Wanting a Child and First Loves.

See also[]

References[]

  1. "Creative Writing". Columbia College. http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/depts/creative.php. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Potash Hill The Magazine of Marlboro College: Alumni News, ’80". Marlboro College. 2004. http://www.marlboro.edu/news/publications/potash_hill/potash_hill_2004_winter. Retrieved July 30, 2011.  Pg. 34
  3. "Linda Black Is Married". New York Times. January 29, 1989. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/style/linda-black-is-married.html?src=pm. Retrieved July 30, 2011. 
  4. [1] Internet Movie Data Base Web site, Web page titled "Jeremy Black (I)", accessed October 28, 2006
  5. "Sophie Cabot Black". Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sophie-cabot-black. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  6. "Sophie Cabot Black". AGNI. http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/S/Sophie-Cabot-Black.html. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  7. "The Tree". The Atlantic Monthly. June 2000. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/black/tree.htm. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  8. "It Never Goes Away". Boston Review. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008. http://bostonreview.net/BR33.5/black.php. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  9. "Private Equity". The New Yorker. May 17, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/05/17/100517po_poem_black. Retrieved February 14, 2012. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Sophie Cabot Black - Biography". Artemis Project. http://artemisproject.com/sophie/main.html. Retrieved July 30, 2011. 
  11. Search results = au:Sophie Cabot Black, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Aug. 29, 2015.

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