J. D. McClatchy

J.D. "Sandy" McClatchy (1945-) is an American poet, literary critic, and editor of the Yale Review.

[edit] Life

McClatchy was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1945. He was educated at Georgetown and Yale, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1974. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut. His partner is graphic designer Chip Kidd.^[1]

McClatchy is Professor of English literature at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His book Hazmat (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.

He edits the "Voice of the Poet" series for Random House AudioBooks; and has written texts for musical settings, including eight opera libretti, for such composers as William Schuman, Ned Rorem, Lorin Maazel, Bruce Saylor, Lowell Liebermann, and Elliot Goldenthal. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been one of the New York Public Literary Lions, and received the 2000 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award. He received the 1991 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and served as an Academy Chancellor from 1996 until 2003.

With UCLA professor and poet Stephen Yenser, McClatchy serves as co-executor for the literary estate of James Merrill (1926-1995).

Poetry

Criticism

American Writers at Home, Photographs by Erica Lennard, Library of America, 240 pages, October 2004
Twenty Questions, Columbia University Press, 200 pages February 1998
White Paper (Columbia UP, 1989).

As Editor

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Random House, Inc, 654 pages, May 1996
Christmas Poems, Edited by John Hollander and J. D. McClatchy, Random House, Inc , cloth , 256 pages, October 1999
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America), Library of America, 854 pages, August 2000
Bright Pages: Yale Writers, 1701-2001, Yale University Press, 540 pages, April 2001
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems, Random House, Inc, 256 pages,May 2001
Poems of the Sea, Random House, Inc, 256 pages, November 2001
Collected Poems by James Merrill, Edited by Stephen Yenser and J. D. McClatchy, Alfred A. Knopf: Random House, 912 pages, November 2002
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Second Edition,Vintage Books: Random House, 736 pages, April 2003
Allen Ginsberg: The Voice of the Poet, Random House, Inc, March 2004
Frank O'Hara: The Voice of the Poet, Random House, Inc., March 2004
W.H. Auden: The Voice of the Poet, Random House, Inc., March 2004
Horace, the Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace, Edited by J. D. McClatchy and Nicholas Jenkins, Princeton University Press, 320 pages, April 2005
Poets of the Civil War, Library of America, 250 pages, April 2005
The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem by James Merrill, Edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser, Alfred A. Knopf: Random House, 608 pages February 2006