Sophie Cabot Black
| Sophie Cabot Black | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1958 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Education |
Marlboro College (BA, 1980) Columbia University (MFA, 1984) |
| Parent(s) |
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]
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 two siblings: actor Jeremy Black, who appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil,[4] and Alexander Black. She also has two daughters.
In 1980, Black received her Bachelor of Arts from Marlboro College. In 1984, she graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts.[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 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]
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)
- The Exchange (2013), Graywolf Press; 88 pages, ISBN 1-55597-641-7 (paperback)
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.
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
Personal life
Black lives in New York and Wilton, Connecticut.[2]
References
- ↑ "Creative Writing". Columbia College. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Potash Hill The Magazine of Marlboro College: Alumni News, ’80". Marlboro College. 2004. Retrieved July 30, 2011. Pg. 34
- ↑ "Linda Black Is Married". New York Times. January 29, 1989. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
- ↑ Internet Movie Data Base Web site, Web page titled "Jeremy Black (I)", accessed October 28, 2006
- ↑ "Sophie Cabot Black". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ↑ "Sophie Cabot Black". AGNI. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ↑ "The Tree". The Atlantic Monthly. June 2000. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ↑ "It Never Goes Away". Boston Review. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2008. Retrieved February 14, 2012. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Private Equity". The New Yorker. May 17, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 "Sophie Cabot Black - Biography". Artemis Project. Retrieved July 30, 2011.