Sophie Cabot Black
| Sophie Cabot Black | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 New York, New York, U.S. |
| 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 prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University.[1]
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[edit] Early life
Cabot was born in New York, New York and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut.[2] Her father is David Black (b. 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 one sibling: actor Jeremy Black, who appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil.[4]
In 1980, Black received her B.A. from Marlboro College. In 1984, she graduated from Columbia University with a M.F.A..[5]
[edit] 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 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] As of late 2003, she was teaching at Columbia.[2]
[edit] Poetry collections
- The Misunderstanding of Nature (1994), her first collection of poems; Graywolf Press; received the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award; 90 pages; ISBN 1-55597-190-3 (hardcover); ISBN 1-55597-201-2 (paperback)
- The Descent: poetry (2004), Graywolf Press; 73 pages, ISBN 1-55597-406-6 (paperback)
[edit] Other
Black's translations of Latin American poets 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. One of her poems was used in a song on an album by Akiko Yano.
[edit] 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
[edit] Personal life
Black lives in New York and Wilton, Connecticut.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Creative Writing". Columbia College. http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/depts/creative.php. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c "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
- ^ "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.
- ^ [1] Internet Movie Data Base Web site, Web page titled "Jeremy Black (I)", accessed October 28, 2006
- ^ "Sophie Cabot Black". Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sophie-cabot-black. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ "Sophie Cabot Black". AGNI. http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/S/Sophie-Cabot-Black.html. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ "The Tree". The Atlantic Monthly. June 2000. http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/black/tree.htm. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ "It Never Goes Away". Boston Review. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008. http://bostonreview.net/BR33.5/black.php. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ "Private Equity". The New Yorker. May 17, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/05/17/100517po_poem_black. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Sophie Cabot Black - Biography". Artemis Project. http://artemisproject.com/sophie/main.html. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
