Sandra Stone
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| Born |
Sandra Stone Los Angeles, CA |
| Occupation | Architect, Assemblagist, Poet, Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable work(s) | Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Cafe, "Snow Whippets" |
| Notable award(s) |
National Poetry Manuscript Competition (1997) Dana Award (2007) Lucille Medwick Award For a Single Poem on a Humanitarian Theme (2010) |
Sandra Stone is a visual and conceptual artist as well as a poet, playwright and author of literary fiction and nonfiction.
Life
Sandra Stone has received more than 35 commissions from major architectural firms to create art for both public interiors and the landscape. She describes her work as "creating metaphor for space through architectural concepts, context, and literary text."
She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Literary Arts Inc. In 2007 her writing won the Dana Award in Poetry.[1] In 2000 her 24-word letter was chosen from among 7,500 entries as the winner of a one-time national competition sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan and the US Postal Service. Her 1997 collection of poetry, Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Café, was selected as the winner of a national manuscript competition. In 1998 Stone's book won the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award.[2]
Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Republic, International Poetry Review, JAMA, The Midwest Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Southwest Review,[3] and elsewhere.
She lives in Portland, Oregon,[4] and sometimes in New York City.
Awards
- 2010 Lucille Medwick Award
- 2010 Campbell Corner Philosophic Lyric
- 2007 Dana Award[1]
- 1998 Literary Arts Book Award for Poetry[2]
- 1997 General Services Administration National Design Award for literary narrative in the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
Books
- Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Cafe. Cleveland State University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-880834-25-1, 9781880834268 Check
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Plays
- What Everything Is
- POoF
- An Imperfect Place to Dispose of Flies
- Yes, Out
Poems
- "Snow Whippets," PSA Lucille Medwick Award
- "The Sadness of Penmanship", Omnidawn Poetry Feature
- "For a Friend Who Decided Early to Stop Dialysis", JAMA
- "Taking A Piece Of Paper To The Bodyshop For Advice", Poetry in Motion
Anthologies
- Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell, ed. (2011). Aspects of Robinson Homage to Weldon Kees. The Backwaters Press.
- Sharon Wood Wortman and Joseph Boquiren, ed. (2007). Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined, with Directions for Five Self-Guided Explorations. Urban Adventure Press. ISBN 0-9787365-3-2.
- David Biespiel, ed. (2006). Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets. Oregon State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87071-098-8.
- Barbara LaMorticella and Steve Nemirow, ed. (2000). Portland Lights: A Poetry Anthology. Nine Lights Press. ISBN 0-9672060-0-6.
References
External links
- "Welcome to the Nye Beach Writers Series Past Presenter's Archive", Writers on the Edge
- "Poetry Feature: Sandra Stone"
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